Dag Terje Andersen
President of the Storting
Incumbent
Assumed office  8 October 2009
Preceded by	Thorbjørn Jagland
Born	27 May 1957 (1957-05-27) (age 52) Frogn, Akershus
Nationality	Norwegian
Political party	Norwegian Labour Party
Occupation	Politician

Dag Terje Andersen (born 27 May 1957 in Frogn, Akershus) is a Norwegian politician for the Norwegian Labour Party. In addition to professional politics he has been working at a steel mill and as a lumberjack, something that has given him a reputation for representing the average guy in politics.

He was elected into the Norwegian parliament (Storting) as a representative from Vestfold in 1997, and he was re-elected in the 2005 election.

Andersen was the Mayor of Lardal from 1987 to 1992. He was at first a political advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before he became Secretary of State at the Ministry of Social Affairs in 1992. He was a party secretary for the Norwegian Labour Party from 1992 until 1996.

In 1996 he became Minister of Agriculture, remaining in that post for slightly less than a year. Andersen later became Minister of Trade and Industry on 29 September 2006, when Odd Eriksen resigned.

On 8 October 2009 Andersen was elected as President of the Storting.

[edit] External links

• "Dag Terje Andersen" (in Norwegian). Stortinget.no. http://www.stortinget.no/no/Representanter-og-komiteer/Representantene/Representantfordeling/Representant/?perid=DTA&tab=Biography. 

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