Kjerstin Askholt (born 7 May 1962) is a Norwegian civil servant. She was the

Governor of Svalbard The governor of Svalbard ( no, Sysselmesteren på Svalbard) represents the Norwegian government in exercising its sovereignty over the Svalbard archipelago (Spitsbergen). The position reports to the Norwegian Ministry of Justice, but it mai ...

from 2015 to 2021. Askholt was the deputy director of Bredtveit Prison from 1990 to 1991, deputy director of the

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from 1996 to 1999, and was from 2003, deputy under-secretary of state at the Polar Department of the Ministry of Justice. She was appointed

on 1 October 2015.The current Governor
Governor of Svalbard's website, visited 19 May 2020.

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