Office: | Member of the Storting |
Term Start: | 1 October 2013 |
Constituency: | Rogaland |
Office2: | Deputy Member of the Storting |
Term Start2: | 1 October 2009 |
Term End2: | 30 September 2013 |
Constituency2: | Rogaland |
Birth Date: | 2 March 1985 |
Birth Place: | Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway |
Alma Mater: | University of Oslo |
Partner: | Ina Libak |
Children: | 1 |
Party: | Labour |
Torstein Tvedt Solberg (born 2 March 1985) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He is currently a member of parliament for Rogaland since 2013, having previously been a deputy member between 2009 and 2013.
Solberg attended Stavanger Cathedral School. He obtained a bachelor's degree at University of Rogaland a master's degree in Culture, Environment and Sustainability at the University of Oslo in 2013.[1]
He was a member of Stavanger city council from 2003 to 2011. He was active in Rogaland Workers' Youth League (AUF) for several years and headed it in 2005. He worked as a secretary for Rogaland AUF from 2005 to 2006 and worked as international secretary of the national from 2007 to 2009.[1]
Tvedt Solberg was elected leader of the Rogaland Labour Party in 2020, succeeding Stanley Wirak. He was replaced by mayor of Gjesdal Frode Fjeldsbø at the 2022 convention.[2] [3]
He served as a deputy representative to the Storting from Rogaland between 2009 and 2013. He got the second spot on Rogaland Labour list for the 2013 Norwegian parliamentary election, considered to be a safe mandate for the Labour Party.[4] He was re-elected in 2017 and 2021. He announced in April 2024 that he wouldn't be seeking re-election at the 2025 election.[5]
From September 2012 to June 2013, he was a political advisor to Minister of Trade and Industry Trond Giske.[1]
Tvedt Solberg is in a domestic partnership with former Workers' Youth League leader Ina Libak, with whom he has one child.[6]