Bjørn Jacobsen (born 11 June 1960 in

Sandnessjøen Sandnessjøen is a town and the administrative centre of Alstahaug Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. Sandnessjøen was granted special trading privileges in the late 1600s and it received town status in 1999. Sandnessjøen is located on ...

Helgeland Helgeland is the most southerly district in Northern Norway. Generally speaking, Helgeland refers to the part of Nordland county that is located south of the Arctic Circle. It is bordered in the north by the Saltfjellet mountains and Svartise ...

) is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party (SV). He was elected to the

Norwegian Parliament 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 base ...

from

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; en, Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the town of Molde, while Ålesund is the ...

in 2001. He was a member of the

Harstad ( se, Hárstták) is the second-most populated municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It is mostly located on the large island of Hinnøya. The municipal center is the Harstad (town), town of Harstad, the most populous town in Centra ...

municipality council from 1983 to 1985, and a deputy member in

Molde Molde () is a town and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Romsdal. It is located on the Romsdal Peninsula, surrounding the Fannefjord and Moldefjord. The administrative centre of the m ...

from 1995 to 1999.

Parliamentary Committee duties

*2005 - 2009 member of the Enlarged Foreign Affairs Committee. *2005 - 2009 member of the

Standing Committee on Defence Standing Committee on Defence (SCOF) is usually a parliamentary committee of parliaments of nations following a parliamentary system A parliamentary system, or parliamentarian democracy, is a system of democratic governance of a state (or ...

. *2005 - 2009 deputy member of the Electoral Committee. *2001 - 2005 member of the Enlarged Foreign Affairs Committee. *2001 - 2005 member of the

Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs ( no, Utenrikskomiteen) is a defunct committee of the Norwegian Parliament responsible for matters related to foreign policy, development assistance, international agreements, Svalbard and the Norwegian polar ...

. *2001 - 2005 deputy member of the Electoral Committee.

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* 1960 births Living people People from Alstahaug Socialist Left Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting 21st-century Norwegian politicians {{Norway-politician-1960s-stub