Mette Nord (born 14 January 1959) is a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party. She hails from

Porsgrunn is a city and municipality in Telemark in the county of Vestfold og Telemark in Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Porsgrunn. The municipality of Porsgrunn w ...

. She is a

practical nurse A licensed practical nurse (LPN), in much of the United States and Canada, is a nurse who cares for people who are sick, injured, convalescent, or disabled. In the United States, LPNs work under the direction of physicians, mid-level practition ...

by vocation, and became leader of the Telemark branch of the

Norwegian Association of Health and Social Care Personnel The Norwegian Association of Health and Social Care Personnel ( no, Norsk Helse- og Sosialforbund, NHS) was a trade union representing auxiliary nurses and care workers in Norway. The union was founded in 1965 as the Norwegian Nursing Auxiliaries' ...

. When this trade union merged in 2003 to form the

Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees The Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees ( no, Fagforbundet) is a trade union in Norway. It has a membership of 395,000 and is affiliated with the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO). It was founded in 2003 as a merger of t ...

, she became deputy leader of the Telemark branch. She was elected national board member in 2005, deputy leader in 2009 and leader in 2013. She was elected as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from

Telemark Telemark is a traditional region, a former county, and a current electoral district in southern Norway. In 2020, Telemark merged with the former county of Vestfold to form the county of Vestfold og Telemark. Telemark borders the traditional ...

in 2005 and 2009, serving two terms. From December 2012 to September 2013 she served as a State Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister as a part of Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet.

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1959 births Living people Politicians from Porsgrunn Norwegian trade unionists Deputy members of the Storting Labour Party (Norway) politicians Politicians from Telemark Norwegian state secretaries Women members of the Storting Norwegian women state secretaries {{Norway-politician-1950s-stub