Ove Bernt Trellevik (born 15 August 1965) is a Norwegian military officer, economist, and politician for the Conservative Party. A former officer in the

Royal Norwegian Navy The Royal Norwegian Navy ( no, Sjøforsvaret, , Sea defence) is the branch of the Norwegian Armed Forces responsible for naval operations of Norway. , the Royal Norwegian Navy consists of approximately 3,700 personnel (9,450 in mobilized state, ...

and former mayor of Sund, he has been member of the Storting from the constituency of

Hordaland Hordaland () was a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties. Hordaland was the third largest county, after Akershus and Oslo, by population. The county government was the Hordaland County Munici ...

since 2013.

Personal life, education and early career

Trellevik was born in

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula o ...

on 15 August 1965, a son of Åsmund Trellevik and Anne Marie Trellevik. He was first educated as chef, and is further educated both as military officer from the

Royal Norwegian Naval Academy The Royal Norwegian Naval Academy (RNoNA, ''Sjøkrigsskolen'' in Norwegian) is located at Laksevåg in Bergen. It was formally established 27 October 1817 in Frederiksvern. The institution educates officers for the Royal Norwegian Navy. History ...

, and economist from the

Norwegian School of Economics The Norwegian School of Economics ( no, Norges Handelshøyskole) or NHH is a business school situated in Bergen, Norway. It was founded in 1936 as Norway's first business school and is a leading teaching and research institution in the fields of ...

. He was appointed officer in the

from 1985 to 2001, and was assigned with the from 2001 to 2006. From 2006 to 2010 he was assigned as special advisor for the power company BKK.

Political career

Trellevik was elected member of the municipal council of Sund from 2007 to 2015, and served as mayor in Sund from 2010 to 2013. He has been chairman of the board of , , and , and board member of the foundation . He was elected representative to the Parliament of Norway from

in 2013 where he was member of the Standing Committee on Business and Industry from 2013 to 2017. He was re-elected to the Storting for the periods 2017–2021 and 2021–2025, and was member of the Standing Committee on Local Government and Public Administration from 2017 to 2021, and of the Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment from 2021. He was a member of the Storting delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union from 2017 to 2021, and a delegate to the

United Nations General Assembly The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; french: link=no, Assemblée générale, AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as the main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ of the UN. Curr ...

from 2018 to 2019.

References

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