Kjell Magne Bondevik (Norwegian pronunciation: ['ç?l? 'm??n? 'b?n??vi?k] (listen); born 3 September 1947) is a Norwegian Lutheran minister and politician (Christian Democratic Party).
He served as Prime Minister of Norway from 1997 to 2000, and from 2001 to 2005, making him Norway's longest serving non-Labour Party Prime Minister since World War II.
Currently, he is President of the Oslo Centre for Peace and Human Rights.On 31 October 2006, he published his memoir, called Et liv i spenning (A life of excitement and tension).
On 31 January 2017, he was the first high-ranking politician from another country detained and questioned in the United States as a result of President Donald Trump's executive orders banning immigration from seven predominantly Muslim nations, because of a diplomatic visit to Iran he had made in 2014.