Guri Ingebrigtsen

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Guri Ingebrigtsen
Minister of Social Affairs
In office
17 March 2000 – 19 October 2001
Prime MinisterJens Stoltenberg
Preceded byMagnhild Meltveit Kleppa
Succeeded byIngjerd Schou
Mayor of Vestvågøy
In office
1 January 1999 – 31 December 2007
Preceded byFrank Rist
Succeeded byJohnny Finstad
Personal details
Born(1952-05-19)19 May 1952
Værøy, Nordland, Norway
Died5 January 2020(2020-01-05) (aged 67)
Political partyLabour Party
OccupationPolitician

Guri Helene Ingebrigtsen (19 May 1952 – 5 January 2020) was a Norwegian politician for the

Labour Party.[1]

Ingebrigtsen was born in Værøy. In the 1970s she was a member of the leftist Workers' Communist Party (AKP). In 1986, she worked in the Afghanistan Committee, giving medical aid. She was a graduate in medicine from the University of Oslo in 1982, having minored in criminology in 1976. Among several medicine-related jobs, she was a researcher at the University of Oslo from 1987 to 1996.[1]

From 1996 to 1997, during the

first cabinet Stoltenberg, she headed the same Ministry.[1][2]

On the local level Ingebrigtsen was a member of Vestvågøy municipal council from 1995 to 1999, and then served as mayor from 1999 to 2007.[1]

On 5 January 2020, Ingebrigtsen died from cancer at the age of 67.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Guri Ingebrigtsen" (in Norwegian). Storting.
  2. ^ "Register of Persons "Norway's Governments since 1814"". Government.no. Archived from the original on 2012-09-14. Retrieved 2011-06-05.
Political offices
Preceded by Mayor of Vestvågøy
1999–2007
Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of Labour and Social Inclusion
2000–2001
Succeeded by