Term Start: | 29 January 2019 |
Term End: | 30 September 2021 |
Deputy: | Geir Jørgen Bekkevold |
Leader: | Kjell Ingolf Ropstad |
Predecessor: | Knut Arild Hareide |
Successor: | Olaug Bollestad |
Office2: | Member of the Norwegian Parliament |
Term Start2: | 1 October 2013 |
Term End2: | 30 September 2021 |
Constituency2: | Vest-Agder |
Office3: | Mayor of Lyngdal |
Term Start3: | 18 October 1995 |
Term End3: | 17 October 2007 |
Predecessor3: | Anders Nøkland |
Successor3: | Ingunn Foss |
Birth Date: | 1 November 1953 |
Birth Place: | Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Norway |
Party: | Christian Democratic |
Nationality: | Norwegian |
Hans Fredrik Grøvan (born 1 November 1953) is a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party. He served as the party’s parliamentary leader from 2019 to 2021.
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Vest-Agder in 2013.He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Vest-Agder during the term 2001 - 2005.
On 29 January 2019, Grøvan was appointed the party’s parliamentary leader after Knut Arild Hareide resigned from the position.[1]
Grøvan ran for re-election for the 2021 election, but lost the nomination to Jorunn Gleditsch Lossius in November 2020. The party went on to lose five seats in Parliament in the election on 13 September 2021.[2] [3]
On the local level he was the mayor of Lyngdal from 1995 to 2007. He was chairman of the board of Agder Energi to 2005.