Trine Skei Grande

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Trine Skei Grande
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Member of the Norwegian Parliament
for Oslo
In office
2013–2017
Personal details
Born February 2, 1969
Overhalla, Nord-Trøndelag
Political party Venstre

Trine Skei Grande (born October 2, 1969 in Overhalla) is a Norwegian politician and leader of the Liberal Party of Norway. She is currently a member of the Norwegian Parliament for Oslo. This is her fourth consecutive term, after serving as deputy member from 2001 and being elected in the 2005 parliamentary election. She was re-elected in the 2009 and 2013 parliamentary elections.Grande studied language and economics at NTNU and later political science and history at the University of Oslo.Prior to entering politics full-time she worked as a part-time journalist, as a high school teacher and as a lecturer at Nord-Trøndelag University College[1]

Although the Liberal Party suffered a major blow in the 2009 parliamentary election, Grande was voted in for Oslo. She and Borghild Tenden of Akershus made up the Liberal Party's parliamentary delegation. Following the resignation of Lars Sponheim as party leader, she was proposed as the leading possible candidate to take over the leadership of the Liberal Party[2] Grande was elected leader of the Liberal Party at the 2010 Annual Meeting.[3]

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Political offices
Preceded by Oslo City Commissioner of Culture and Education
2000–2001
Succeeded by
Kjell Veivåg
Party political offices
Preceded by Leader of the Norwegian Liberal Party
2010–present
Incumbent

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