Astri Aas-Hansen | |
Birth Date: | 16 December 1970 |
Alma Mater: | University of Oslo |
Party: | Labour Party |
Office: | State Secretary of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security |
Termstart: | February 2007 |
Termend: | April 2013 |
Primeminister: | Jens Stoltenberg |
Astri Aas-Hansen (born 16 December 1970) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.[1]
In 2005, when Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet assumed office, she was appointed as a political adviser in the Ministry of Justice and the Police. She was promoted to State Secretary in February 2007, and remained here until April 2013.[2] She returned to her former job in Advokatfirmaet Elden.[3]
She hails from Lillesand, and graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.jur. degree in 1999. From 1995 to 2002 she worked as an advisor for the Labour Party; since 2002 she has worked as a lawyer. She has also held lectures at the University of Oslo and Nesna University College.