| Per-Kristian Foss | |
| Office: | Second Vice President of the Storting |
| Term Start: | 8 October 2009 |
| Term End: | 30 September 2013 |
| President: | Dag Terje Andersen |
| Predecessor: | Position established |
| Office1: | First Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party |
| Term Start1: | 9 May 2004 |
| Term End1: | 27 April 2008 |
| Leader1: | Erna Solberg |
| Predecessor1: | Erna Solberg |
| Successor1: | Jan Tore Sanner |
| Leader2: | Jan Petersen |
| Term Start2: | 5 May 2002 |
| Term End2: | 9 May 2004 |
| Predecessor2: | Anne Berit Andersen |
| Successor2: | Jan Tore Sanner |
| Office3: | Minister of Finance |
| Term Start3: | 19 October 2001 |
| Term End3: | 17 October 2005 |
| Primeminister3: | Kjell Magne Bondevik |
| Office4: | Member of the Norwegian Parliament |
| Term Start4: | 1 October 1981 |
| Term End4: | 30 September 2013 |
| Deputy4: | Ine Eriksen Søreide |
| Constituency4: | Oslo |
| Office5: | Leader of the Young Conservatives |
| Term Start5: | 1 June 1973 |
| Term End5: | 1 June 1977 |
| Predecessor5: | Jan Petersen |
| Successor5: | Kaci Kullmann Five |
| Birth Date: | 19 July 1950 |
| Birth Name: | Per-Kristian Foss |
| Birth Place: | Oslo, Norway |
| Spouse: | Jan Erik Knarbakk |
| Occupation: | Politician |
Per-Kristian Foss (born 19 July 1950) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party and from 2014 to 2021 the Auditor General of Norway.
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Oslo in 1981, and was re-elected on six occasions. He had previously served as a deputy representative during the term 1977 - 1981.
From 2001 to 2005, when the second cabinet Bondevik held office, Foss was Minister of Finance. He also acted as Prime Minister very briefly in 2002. During this period his seat in parliament was taken by Ine Eriksen Søreide. Foss has received much attention for being the first openly gay minister in a Norwegian government and lives in registered partnership with Jan Erik Knarbakk.[1] He was the first openly homosexual national leader.[2]
On the local level Foss was a deputy member of Oslo city council from 1971 to 1975.
From 1973 to 1977 he was the leader of the Young Conservatives (Unge Høyre), the youth wing of the Conservative Party. Per Kristian Foss was mentioned as a possible new leader for the Conservative Party after Jan Petersen resigned in 2004, but he declined to run and instead supported Erna Solberg.[3] After Høyre struggled in elections and polls during the first years of Erna Solberg's leadership he was also mentioned as a possible new leader,[4] but he never challenged Solberg for the leadership position. At present Foss is deputy chairman of the Conservative Party and member of the party's central board.
Foss has a cand.mag. degree in political science, public law and criminology from the University of Oslo (1977) and partial graduate studies in political science.