Dag Terje Andersen

Dag Terje Andersen
President of the Storting
In office
8 October 2009 – 30 September 2013
MonarchHarald V
Prime MinisterJens Stoltenberg
Preceded byThorbjørn Jagland
Succeeded byOlemic Thommessen
Minister of Labour and Social Inclusion
In office
20 June 2008 – 2 October 2009
Prime MinisterJens Stoltenberg
Preceded byBjarne Håkon Hanssen
Succeeded byHanne Bjurstrøm
Minister of Trade and Industry
In office
29 September 2006 – 20 June 2008
Prime MinisterJens Stoltenberg
Preceded byOdd Eriksen
Succeeded bySylvia Brustad
Minister of Agriculture
In office
25 October 1996 – 17 October 1997
Prime MinisterThorbjørn Jagland
Preceded byGunhild Øyangen
Succeeded byKåre Gjønnes
Party Secretary of the Labour Party
In office
4 September 1992 – 25 October 1996
Preceded byThorbjørn Jagland
Succeeded bySolveig Torsvik
Personal details
Born (1957-05-27) 27 May 1957 (age 67)
Frogn, Akershus
NationalityNorwegian
Political partyLabour
SpouseMarried
Children2
OccupationPolitician

Dag Terje Andersen (born 27 May 1957 in Frogn, Akershus) is a Norwegian politician for the Norwegian Labour Party. In addition to professional politics he has worked at a steel mill and as a lumberjack, something that has given him a reputation for politically representing the average citizen.

He was elected into the Norwegian parliament (Storting) as a representative from Vestfold in 1997, and he was re-elected in the 2005, 2009 and 2013 elections.

Andersen was the mayor of Lardal from 1987 to 1992. He was at first a political advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before he became state secretary at the Ministry of Social Affairs in 1992. He was a party secretary for the Norwegian Labour Party from 1992 until 1996.

In 1996 he became Minister of Agriculture, remaining in that post for slightly less than a year. Andersen later became Minister of Trade and Industry on 29 September 2006, when Odd Eriksen resigned.

From 2009 to 2013, Andersen served as President of the Storting.