| Bjørt Samuelsen | |
| Order: | Speaker of the Løgting |
| Term Start: | 22 December 2022 |
| Predecessor: | Jógvan á Lakjuni |
| Order2: | Member of Parliament |
| Term Start2: | 2008 |
| Order3: | Ministers of Trade and Industry |
| Term Start3: | February 2008 |
| Term End3: | September 2008 |
| Birth Date: | 2 March 1965 |
| Birth Place: | Tórshavn, Faroe Islands |
| Party: | Republic (Tjóðveldi) |
Bjørt Samuelsen (2 March 1965 in Tórshavn) is a Faroese journalist, master in food science (Danish: Danish: bromatolog, cand.brom.) and politician (Republic).[1]
She was elected for the Løgting at the 2008 Faroese general election and again in 2011. She was not elected at the 2015 elections, but kept her seat in the parliament because Høgni Hoydal was appointed minister of fisheries. Samuelsen was Ministers of Trade and Industry from 4 February until 15 September 2008. She was the first female minister of trade and industry of the Faroe Islands and as of 2019 the only one. Bjørt Samuelsen was named Speaker of the Løgting in December 2022.
On 24 September 2015 Bjørt Samuelsen along with the independent member of the Løgting Sonja Jógvansdóttir, Social Democratic member Kristianna Winther Poulsen and Progress member Hanna Jensen, submitted a same-sex marriage bill to the Parliament Secretariat.[2] The bill entered Parliament on 17 November 2015. If approved, the law would be scheduled to go into effect on 1 July 2016. The first reading took place 24 November 2015.[3] [4] The second reading is expected to take place in the week that starts on 7 March 2016.[5]