Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa Explained

Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa
Term Start1:1 November 2013
Term End1:21 June 2019
Predecessor1:Tora Aasland
Successor1:Lone Merethe Solheim (acting governor for Bent Høie)
Monarch1:Harald V
Office2:Minister of Transport and Communications
Term Start2:20 October 2009
Term End2:18 June 2012
Primeminister2:Jens Stoltenberg
Predecessor2:Liv Signe Navarsete
Successor2:Marit Arnstad
Office3:Minister of Local Government
Term Start3:21 September 2007
Term End3:20 October 2009
Primeminister3:Jens Stoltenberg
Predecessor3:Åslaug Haga
Successor3:Liv Signe Navarsete
Office4:Minister of Social Affairs
Term Start4:17 October 1997
Term End4:17 March 2000
Primeminister4:Kjell Magne Bondevik
Predecessor4:Hill-Marta Solberg
Successor4:Guri Ingebrigtsen
Birth Date:12 November 1948
Birth Place:Fister, Rogaland, Norway
Nationality:Norwegian
Party:Centre
Alma Mater:Kristiansand lærerskole
Stavanger lærerskole

Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa (born 12 November 1948 in Fister, Norway) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.

Kleppa is educated as a teacher at Kristiansand Teacher Training College in 1970. She worked as a teacher from 1967 to 1992. She was a member of the Hjelmeland municipal council during the 1980s and a member of the Norwegian Parliament from 1993 until 2013. She then served as Governor of Rogaland County from 2013 to 2019.

Political career

She was elected to the Parliament of Norway for the first time in 1993, and has been reelected four times, lastly in 2009. She did not seek reelection in the 2013 Norwegian parliamentary election.[1] Her political advisor is fellow Centre Party member Sigrid Brattabø Handegard.

She was the Minister of Social Affairs from 17 Oct 1997 until 17 March 2000. From 17 October 2005 until 21 September 2007, she was the parliamentary leader for the Centre Party. She was appointed Norwegian Minister of Local Government and Regional Development on 21 September 2007, a post she held until 20 October 2009 when she swapped departments and became Minister of Transport and Communications. She continued in that role until 18 June 2012. On 1 November 2013, she became the County Governor of Rogaland. She retired in 2019 after having originally stated she was retiring in November 2018.[2]

Notes and References

  1. News: Løset . Kjetil . 2012-06-25 . Sp-topp trekker seg fra Stortinget . no . . 2012-12-09.
  2. Web site: Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa quits as County Governor . nn. Stavanger Aftenblad . 18 June 2018 . 18 June 2018.