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Margaret Eide Hillestad (born 14 February 1961, in Oslo) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party and a former deputy MP.


Education and professional background

Hillestad is an economist with a
cand.oecon. Candidatus oeconomices (male) or Candidata oeconomices (female), often abbreviated cand.oecon. is an academic degree in economics at Education in Denmark, Danish, Háskóli Íslands, Icelandic and Higher education in Norway, Norwegian universities ...
degree from the University of Oslo (1988), and works as a project leader for the research institute AgriAnalyse.


Political career

She was President of the Centre Party Women's Association and a member of the executive board of the Centre Party 2005–2010. She has also been leader of Oslo Centre Party and the party's top candidate from Oslo in several parliamentary and municipal elections. As her party's top candidate from the Oslo constituency, she was elected as the first deputy member of the Norwegian Parliament from Oslo in the
1993 Norwegian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 12 and 13 September 1993.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1438 It was the first European election where the two largest parties fielded a female leade ...
and met 105 days as a member of parliament during the term 1993–1997. She has also been leader of
No to the EU Nei til EU ( en, No to the EU) is the main Norwegian interest group opposing a future Norwegian accession to the European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located ...
in Oslo. She was a deputy member of the Oslo city council 1991–1995. She was also a member of the government-appointed Commission on families and children (1995–1996) which prepared
Norwegian Official Report A Norwegian Official Report ( no, Norges offentlige utredninger, NOU) is a report published by a panel or committee appointed by the Norwegian government. The Norwegian Parliament The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the sup ...
1996:13 on the government's financial support of families.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hillestad, Margaret 1961 births Living people University of Oslo alumni Politicians from Oslo Centre Party (Norway) politicians Deputy members of the Storting Women members of the Storting