Knut Arild Hareide

Knut Arild Hareide MP
Minister of Transport and Communications
In office 24 January 2020 – 14 October 2021
Prime Minister	Erna Solberg
Preceded by	Jon Georg Dale
Succeeded by	Jon-Ivar Nygård
Leader of the Christian Democratic Party
In office 30 April 2011 – 17 January 2019
First Deputy	Olaug Bollestad
Second Deputy	Dagrun Eriksen Kjell Ingolf Ropstad
Preceded by	Dagfinn Høybråten
Succeeded by	Kjell Ingolf Ropstad
Christian Democratic Parliamentary Leader
In office 16 October 2013 – 29 January 2019
Leader	Himself
Preceded by	Hans Olav Syversen
Succeeded by	Hans Fredrik Grøvan
Minister of the Environment
In office 18 June 2004 – 17 October 2005
Prime Minister	Kjell Magne Bondevik
Preceded by	Børge Brende
Succeeded by	Helen Bjørnøy
Member of the Norwegian Parliament
In office 1 October 2013 – 30 September 2021
Deputy	Torill Selsvold Nyborg
Constituency	Hordaland
In office 1 October 2009 – 30 September 2013
Constituency	Akershus
Personal details
Born	(1972-11-23) 23 November 1972 (age 51) Bømlo, Hordaland, Norway
Political party	Christian Democratic
Spouse	Lisa Marie Larsen ​ (m. 2012)​
Children	2
Alma mater	NHH University of Bergen
Website	Knut Arild Hareide's blog

Knut Arild Hareide (born 23 November 1972) is a Norwegian politician who served as a member of parliament from Hordaland and as the leader of the Christian Democratic Party from 2011 to 2019. He served as Minister of Transport and Communications from 2020 to 2021,^[1] and as Minister of the Environment from 2004 to 2005 in the second Bondevik cabinet. In 2007, he announced he would step down from the national political scene for the time being, but he returned when he was nominated as the top candidate for the Christian Democratic Party ticket in Akershus in the 2009 election where he won the county's leveling seat. After Dagfinn Høybråten stepped down as party leader, Hareide was unanimously elected to take his place at the 2011 party convention. In the 2013 election, Hareide was reelected to parliament, this time from his home county of Hordaland.

Before his tenure as government minister, Hareide had sat through one term in the municipal council of his native Bømlo, served as a deputy representative to the national parliament as well as working two years as a State Secretary. He was also second deputy leader of his party from 2003 to 2007, having come through the ranks of the party's youth organization.

Outside politics Hareide is an economist by education and he has worked for the media conglomerate Schibsted.