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Torbjørn Røe Isaksen (born 28 July 1978) is a
Norwegian
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,
MP for the
Conservative Party
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who served as
Minister of Labour and Social Inclusion
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from 2020 to 2021.
[NRK
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> He previously served as
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from 2018 to 2020 and
Minister of Education and Research from October 2013 to January 2018; except from September to November 2017 when he was on
parental leave
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and his duties were undertaken by
Henrik Asheim
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.
Career
Early career
Isaksen edited the newspaper ''
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'', published by the
Young Conservatives (''Unge Høyre''), the youth wing of the Conservative Party from 2002 to 2004, and he was the leader of the Young Conservatives from 2004 to 2008. Prior to entering politics full-time, Isaksen worked as a freelance journalist and was the political editor in the gazette ''
Minerva
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''. Isaksen holds a master's degree in political science from the University of Oslo. His master's thesis was on
Friedrich Hayek
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In 2007, he was named Norway's most talented young politician by
VG.
In 2008, he published the book ''The Right Turn. For a New Conservatism'', which was printed in three editions.
Parliament
Hailing from
Porsgrunn
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, he served as a deputy representative to the Storting, Norwegian Parliament from Telemark during the 2005–2009 term. In the 2009 Norwegian parliamentary election, 2009 election he was the top candidate for the Telemark Conservatives and was elected to List of members of Stortinget 2009–2013, the parliament for the first time.
Minister
Isaksen served as minister throughout Erna Solberg’s tenure as prime minister, although heading different ministries.
Minister of Education
Following the 2013 election, Isaksen was appointed minister of education in Solberg’s cabinet. He retained the post following the 2017 election, but was on leave from 15 September to 26 November. He then held the post until the Liberal Party joined the government on 17 January 2018.
Minister of Trade and Industry
After the Liberal Party joined the government on 17 January 2018, Isaksen was appointed minister of trade and industry.
On 27 June, he announced that the Norwegian state would withdraw from its ownership of Scandinavian Airlines System, SAS, which included 9,88% of the stocks in the company. He stated: “SAS has had a positive development recently, and I have great faith that the company will work purposefully to further improve its competitive position. We believe this is a good time to sell out of the company”. He went on to say: “There is no reason to believe that changed ownership will affect workplaces, grids or other operational conditions in the company. The current structure is already the result of commercial assessments by the company, and not of state ownership”.
In late March 2019, Isaksen expressed support for the permanent solution of having only summer time, instead of both standard and summer time.
Minister of Labour and Social Inclusion
Isakaen was appointed minister of labour and social inclusion on 24 January 2020 after the Progress Party withdrew from government.
After Geir-Inge Sivertsen resigned as Minister of Fisheries in March 2020, Isaksen was acting minister for eleven days before Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen’s appointment.
On 27 May 2020, he stated to ''
Minerva
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'' that he was not intending to stand for the 2021 Norwegian parliamentary election, 2021 election, and that he would be stepping down from politics all together. His reasoning was to focus more on his family.
On 6 October, an article from
NRK
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revealed that in a meeting, a few days after 10 July 2019, Isaksen gave an exception to a regulation when he was minister of trade and industry. The exception benefited two voyages by MS Roald Amundsen. The day after, the trade unions Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions, LO, Sjømannsforbundet and Norsk Sjøoffisersforbund have requested an urgent meeting with Iselin Nybø, Isaksen’s successor.
Hege-Merethe Bengtsson, a lawyer and a leader of the trade union Det norske maskinistforbund, claimed that Isaksen had no authority to make that exception to rules and regulations.
On 20 September 2021, Røe Isaksen condemned a knife attack at Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration offices in Bergen. To the press, he stated: “It is a very tragic event. There is one person killed and one injured. Our thoughts now go to those who are relatives and those who are colleagues. The police will now be allowed to do their investigative work, but it is only natural that the case should be reviewed by us and NAV to see if there is anything that needs to be improved or done”. He also emphasised that it was unfortunate that threats were a daily occurrence among some working groups.
After Jonas Gahr Støre formed his cabinet in the aftermath of the 2021 Norwegian parliamentary election, 2021 election, Røe Isaksen was succeeded by Hadia Tajik.
After politics
On 15 December 2021, Røe Isaksen resigned from the Conservative Party to become the social editor at E24.
Publications
*T.R. Isaksen and Nikolai Astrup (politician), N. Astrup; ''Velferd etter velferdsstaten''
*T.R. Isaksen; ''Høyre om'' (2008)
*T.R. Isaksen with Henrik Syse; ''Conservatism, an anthology'' With translated texts from amongst others Augustin, Edmund Burke, Joseph de Maistre, Konrad Adenauer and Roger Scruton (2011)
References
External links
BlogMinerva magazine
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1978 births
Living people
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Politicians from Telemark
Deputy members of the Storting
Politicians from Porsgrunn
Norwegian bloggers
University of Oslo alumni
Government ministers of Norway
21st-century Norwegian politicians
Ministers of Education of Norway
Ministers of Trade and Shipping of Norway