Siv Jensen

Siv Jensen
Minister of Finance
In office 16 October 2013 – 24 January 2020
Prime Minister	Erna Solberg
Preceded by	Sigbjørn Johnsen
Succeeded by	Jan Tore Sanner
Leader of the Progress Party
In office 6 May 2006 – 8 May 2021
First Deputy	Per Sandberg Sylvi Listhaug
Second Deputy	Per Arne Olsen Ketil Solvik-Olsen Terje Søviknes
Preceded by	Carl I. Hagen
Succeeded by	Sylvi Listhaug
First Deputy Leader of the Progress Party
In office 2 May 1999 – 6 May 2006
Leader	Carl I. Hagen
Preceded by	Lodve Solholm
Succeeded by	Per Sandberg
Parliamentary Leader of the Progress Party
In office 28 January 2020 – 8 May 2021
Leader	Herself
Preceded by	Hans Andreas Limi
Succeeded by	Sylvi Listhaug
In office 5 October 2005 – 17 October 2013
Leader	Carl I. Hagen Herself
Preceded by	Carl I. Hagen
Succeeded by	Harald T. Nesvik
Member of the Norwegian Parliament
In office 1 October 1997 – 30 September 2021
Deputy	Mazyar Keshvari
Constituency	Oslo
Deputy Member of the Storting
In office 1 October 1993 – 30 September 1997
Constituency	Oslo
Personal details
Born	(1969-06-01) 1 June 1969 (age 55) Oslo, Norway
Political party	Progress
Alma mater	Norwegian School of Economics

Siv Jensen (born 1 June 1969) is a Norwegian politician who served as the leader of the Progress Party from 2006 to 2021. She also held the position as Minister of Finance from 2013 to 2020 in the Solberg Cabinet. She was also a member of the Norwegian parliament from Oslo from 1997 to 2021.

Born and raised in Oslo, Jensen graduated with a degree in business studies from the Norwegian School of Economics. She was first elected to parliament in the 1997 parliamentary election, and has later been re-elected for four consecutive terms. She chaired the parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs from 2001 to 2005, and in 2006 succeeded long-time chairman Carl I. Hagen as leader of the Progress Party.

Jensen was the Progress Party's candidate for Prime Minister in the 2009 parliamentary election, which saw record high results for the party. For the 2013 parliamentary election she supported prospects of a coalition government headed by the Conservative Party, and led her party into the Solberg Cabinet, the Progress Party's first ever government participation.

Jensen became Norway's longest-serving Minister of Finance since World War II in October 2019.^[1]