Steinar Gudmund Ness (born 10 February 1959) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. He was born in

Viksdalen Vik (also ''Vikja'' or ''Viken'') is a village in Sunnfjord Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the north shore of the river Gaula, on the eastern end of the lake Viksdalsvatnet. The village was formerly located i ...

. From 1984 to 1985 he was the leader of the

Centre Youth The Centre Youth (''Senterungdommen'' or SUL) is the youth organization of the Norwegian Centre Party. Hence, they advocate decentralisation and stress their opposition of the European Union. Leaders * Torleik Svelle (2019–present) * Ada Arns ...

, the youth wing of the Centre Party. He would later become general secretary in the Centre Party from 1991 to 1997.Steinar Gudmund Ness
at NRK Sogn og Fjordane County Encyclopedia He served as a deputy representative to the

Parliament of Norway The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years bas ...

from Sogn og Fjordane during the terms 1981–1985 and 1985–1989. In 1989, when

Syse's Cabinet Syse's Cabinet was a minority centre-right Conservative, Centre, Christian Democrat Government of Norway. It succeeded the Labour Second cabinet Brundtland after the 1989 election, and sat between 16 October 1989 and 3 November 1990. It was repla ...

assumed office, he was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of the Environment. He held this position until 1990, when Syse's Cabinet fell. From 1997 to 1999, under the Bondevik's First Cabinet, he was a political adviser in the Ministry of Culture. He was a member of

Gaular Gaular is a former municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It was located in the traditional district of Sunnfjord. The administrative centre was the village of Sande. Other villages in the municipality included Bygstad, Hestad, and V ...

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from 1999. He is the deputy chair of

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since 2003. He was the deputy chair of the Broadcasting Council from 2006 to 2009. In 2010 he became a board member of the

Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK, an abbreviation of the Norwegian ''Norsk Rikskringkasting AS'', generally expressed in English as the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the largest ...

. In 2017 he was again elected as deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway.

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1959 births Living people Centre Party (Norway) politicians Norwegian state secretaries Deputy members of the Storting Sogn og Fjordane politicians {{Norway-politician-1950s-stub