Olaug Bollestad

Olaug Bollestad
First Deputy Leader of the Christian Democratic Party
Assumed office
8 May 2015
Leader Knut Arild Hareide
Member of the Norwegian Parliament
Assumed office
1 October 2013
Constituency Rogaland
Mayor of Gjesdal
In office
1 January 2007 – 1 October 2013
Preceded by Karl Edvard Aksnes
Succeeded by Frode Fjeldsbø
Personal details
Born Olaug Vervik Bollestad
(1961-11-04) 4 November 1961
Stavanger, Norway
Political party Christian Democratic Party

Olaug Vervik Bollestad (born 4 November 1961) is a Norwegian nurse and politician for the Christian Democratic Party.

She served as mayor of Gjesdal from 2007 to 2013, and was elected to the Parliament of Norway in the Norwegian parliamentary election, 2013 where she was nominated in the first spot on the Christian Democratic Party's ballot for Rogaland.[1] In 2015 she became the second deputy leader of the Christian Democratic Party.[2]

Educated as a nurse, she worked as department manager at Stavanger University Hospital before she became mayor. She was elected to the municipal council of Gjesdal in 2003.[3]

She is a member of the Norwegian Baptist Union.[3]

References

  1. ↑ To nøgde Krf-arar NRK. Retrieved 23 September 2013 (in Norwegian)
  2. ↑ "Olaug Bollestad" (in Norwegian). Storting.
  3. 1 2 Olaug Vervik Bollestad Kommunal Rapport. Retrieved 23 September 2013 (in Norwegian)


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