Mudassar Hussain Kapur (born 14 December 1976) is a Norwegian politician. He is a member of the

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and has served as a member of the Storting for Oslo since 2013.

Education

Kapur studied marketing, branding and management at the

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from 1995 to 2000 and earned an

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in strategic management from the

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in 2012.

Career

Kapur began his career in sales and marketing for

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in 2000. In 2006, he transitioned into politics as a campaign manager for the Conservative Party where he worked until 2012. The same year, he became a fundraiser for

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.Wazim K. Riaz (11 March 2013)
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Local politics

He was elected to Oslo city council from the

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district in 2011 and served on the Finance Committee. In the 2013 Norwegian parliamentary election he was nominated in the 5th spot on the Conservative Party's ballot and gained a seat in the parliament in the election.

Parliament

Kapur was elected to the Storting in the 2013 election and was re-elected in 2017 and 2021. In the Storting, Kapur served as a member of the Standing Committee on Local Government and Public Administration from 2013 to 2017. After

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was appointed to the

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, Kapur succeeded him as chair of the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs. He held this post from February 2020 to September 2021, and was succeeded by Eigil Knutsen.

Personal life

Kapur was born on 14 December 1976 in

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. He is of Pakistani descent, his family having immigrated to Norway from Pakistan in 1971, and he was born five years later. He is married and has a son and a daughter. The family lives in Ekeberg, Oslo.

References

1976 births Living people Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting Politicians from Oslo Norwegian people of Pakistani descent 21st-century Norwegian politicians {{Norway-politician-1970s-stub