Tom Cato Karlsen (born 1974) is a Norwegian politician and

anesthesiologist Anesthesiology, anaesthesiology, or anaesthesia is the medical specialty concerned with the total perioperative care of patients before, during and after surgery. It encompasses anesthesia, intensive care medicine, critical emergency medicine, ...

. He was elected as a deputy representative for 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 ...

for

Nordland Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, N ...

county from 2013 to 2017. He also was a state secretary for the Ministry of Transport and Communications from 2014 to 2017. On 26 October 2018, he was appointed to be the new County Governor of

county.

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1974 births Living people Nordland politicians Politicians from Bodø Progress Party (Norway) politicians Deputy members of the Storting Norwegian state secretaries County governors of Norway County governors of Nordland {{Norway-politician-1970s-stub