Name Eirik Thorshaug | Role Politician | |
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Eirik Øwre Thorshaug (born (1976-04-11)11 April 1976) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
He started his career at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, but became an undergraduate from the University of Oslo in political science in 2002. He started, but did not finish, a master's course. He also went through one-year compulsory military service, and from 1998 to 2002 he worked as an international secretary and adviser for the Workers' Youth League. He was also a member of the national board here from 1996 to 1998.
His first elected political position was as a municipal councilman in Malvik from 1995 to 1999. For the following four years he was a member of Sør-Trøndelag county council. From 2002 to 2004 he was the deputy leader of the Workers' Youth League.
Upon quitting his studies in 2004, he was hired as political adviser for the Labour Party fraction of the Standing Committee on Justice. In 2007 he was appointed as a political adviser in the Ministry of Justice and the Police. He remained such until 2011, with the exception of spells in 2009 and 2011 when he was acting State Secretary. From 2011 to 2012 he was a State Secretary on regular basis. In September 2012 he became State Secretary in the Ministry of Defence, which he remained until Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet fell in October 2013.
He is married to Mina Gerhardsen.