Bent Høie is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 politician representing the Conservative Party

Conservative Party of Norway

The Conservative Party is a Norwegian political party. The current leader is Erna Solberg. The party was since the 1920s consistently the second largest party in Norway, but has been surpassed by the growth of the Progress Party in the late 1990s and 2000s...

. He is currently a representative of Rogaland

Rogaland

is a county in Western Norway, bordering Hordaland, Telemark, Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder. It is the center of the Norwegian petroleum industry, and as a result of this, Rogaland has the lowest unemployment rate of any county in Norway, 1.1%...

 in the Storting and was first elected in 2001.

Høie was born in Randaberg

Randaberg

Randaberg is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway, located just to the north of Stavanger. Randaberg was separated from Hetland on 1 July 1922. The northernmost conurbation of Stavanger/Sandnes can be found here.-Name:...

. He studied law at University of Bergen

University of Bergen

The University of Bergen is located in Bergen, Norway. Although founded as late as 1946, academic activity had taken place at Bergen Museum as far back as 1825. The university today serves more than 14,500 students...

 in 1991, also education from Norwegian School of Hotel Management 1991-93. He also represents his party in Stavanger

Stavanger

Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...

 Municipal Council and Rogaland County Council.

Høie is openly gay.

Storting committees

• 2005–2009 Member of the Standing Committee on Local Government and Public Administration.
• 2001–2005 Member of the Standing Committee on Health and Social Affairs.
• 2000–2001 Member of the Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment

Delegations

2001- :Deputy member of the Norwegian Delegation to the Nordic Council

Nordic Council

The Nordic Council is a geo-political, inter-parliamentary forum for co-operation between the Nordic countries. It was established following World War II and its first concrete result was the introduction in 1952 of a common labour market and free movement across borders without passports for the...

, deputy member of the Norwegian Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , which held its first session in Strasbourg on 10 August 1949, can be considered the oldest international parliamentary assembly with a pluralistic composition of democratically elected members of parliament established on the basis of an...

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Local government

2000- , 1991-1999: Member of the Rogaland County Council
1999-2003:Member of the Stavanger Municipal Council
1999-2000:Member of the Rogaland County Executive Board
1991-1995:Member of the Randaberg Municipal Council

Political appointments

2000- : Chairman of the Stavanger Conservative Party
1997-1999: Deputy chairman of the Rogaland Conservative Party
1995-1999: Political adviser for the Stavanger Conservative Party group in the Municipal Council
1993-1995: Campaign secretary of the Rogaland Conservative Party
1993-1995: Member of the Central Executive Committee of the Young Conservatives of Norway
1990-1992: Chairman of the Rogaland Young Conservatives

External links

Bent Høie Biography official Norwegian Parliament website