Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen

Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen (born 3 October 1959 in Vardø) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party, and was a parliamentary representative for Finnmark from 1985 to 2009. He served as Minister of Fisheries from 1996 to 1997 and Minister of Finance from 2000 to 2001 in the first cabinet Stoltenberg. Pedersen was Chief of Staff at the Office of the Prime Minister and a member of the Cabinet from 2006 to 2013. From 2015 he has been CEO at Norwegian Oil and Gas http://www.norskoljeoggass.no/en/.

Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen
Minister at the Office of the Prime Minister
In office 20 October 2009 – 16 October 2013
Prime Minister	Jens Stoltenberg
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Vidar Helgesen
Chief of Staff at the Office of the Prime Minister
In office 1 December 2006 – 20 October 2009
Prime Minister	Jens Stoltenberg
Minister of Finance
In office 17 March 2000 – 19 October 2001
Prime Minister	Jens Stoltenberg
Preceded by	Gudmund Restad
Succeeded by	Per-Kristian Foss
Minister of Fisheries
In office 25 October 1996 – 17 October 1997
Prime Minister	Thorbjørn Jagland
Preceded by	Jan Henry T. Olsen
Succeeded by	Peter Angelsen
Member of the Norwegian Parliament
In office 1 October 1985 – 30 September 2009
Constituency	Finnmark
Personal details
Born	(1959-10-03) 3 October 1959 Vardø, Norway
Political party	Labour Party