| Harald Tom Nesvik | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
| Office: | Minister of Fisheries and Seafood |
| Primeminister: | Erna Solberg |
| Term Start: | 13 August 2018 |
| Term End: | 24 January 2020 |
| Predecessor: | Per Sandberg |
| Successor: | Geir-Inge Sivertsen |
| Office1: | Parliamentary Leader for the Progress Party |
| Term Start1: | 17 October 2013 |
| Term End1: | 2 October 2017 |
| Leader1: | Siv Jensen |
| Predecessor1: | Siv Jensen |
| Successor1: | Hans Andreas Limi |
| Office2: | Member of the Norwegian Parliament |
| Constituency2: | Møre og Romsdal |
| Term Start2: | 1 October 1997 |
| Term End2: | 30 September 2017 |
| Birth Date: | 4 May 1966 |
| Birth Place: | Ålesund, Møre og Romsdal, Norway |
| Nationality: | Norwegian |
| Party: | Progress |
Harald Tom Nesvik (born 4 May 1966) is a Norwegian politician and member of the Storting for Møre og Romsdal from 1997 to 2017.[1] He is a member of the right-wing Progress Party (FrP). He served as Minister of Fisheries from 2018 to 2020.
In 2002, Nesvik claimed that he had nominated Tony Blair and George W. Bush for the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize.
Born in Ålesund, Norway in 1966 to salesman Odd Nesvik (1941-) and homemaker Ragnhild Pedersen (1943-). He attended Ålesund senior high school from 1982 to 1985. He studied Export marketing at Møre and Romsdal College of Fishery Technology from 1991 to 1993. He also enrolled in the Military Defence College. Besides studying he worked in as a salesman for a local electronics store, as well as a bouncer for a local security company. He was a former football player with Ålesunds oldest club, SK Rollon, and remains a die-hard supporter of that club along with local powerhouse Aalesunds FK.
An early member of the Progress Party, Nesvik became politically active after finishing high school in 1986. A member of Ålesund municipal council since 1987, Nesvik quickly became chairman of the Progress Party's Youth in Ålesund. He became chairman of Ålesund FrP by 1999. Before the parliamentary election in 1997, Nesvik was selected to run for the 10th seat in Møre og Romsdal county, which he gained. He has since been reelected to the Storting three times, serving four consecutive terms.
As the party joined the Conservative/Progress coalition government following the 2013 parliamentary election, Siv Jensen was appointed Minister of Finance. Nesvik was then elected the party's parliamentary leader.
In 2002 Nesvik achieved brief international media attention when he publicly claimed that he had nominated British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W. Bush for the Nobel Peace Prize.[2]
In his statement to the Associated Press, Nesvik justified the claimed nomination, which was controversial to some, as follows: "The background for my nomination is their decisive action against terrorism, something I believe in the future will be the greatest threat to peace... Unfortunately, sometimes... you have to use force to secure peace."[2]
The 2002 Nobel Prize was in the end awarded to former US President Jimmy Carter.[3]
Non-winning Nobel nominations are kept secret for 50 years by the Nobel committee, so Nesvik's claim is not officially verifiable until 2052.[4]