Torill Selsvold Nyborg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Norwegian politician
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Place of Birth: Kvam, Hordaland, Norway
About Torill Selsvold Nyborg
- Torill Selsvold Nyborg (born 23 February 1952) is a Norwegian nurse, missionary and politician for the Christian Democratic Party. She was born in Kvam as a daughter of electrician Johannes Selsvold (1914–1997) and housewife Dorthea Selsvold (1922–1997).
- She took primary school in her native Ålvik and secondary school (lower and upper) in Øystese, graduating in 1970.
- She then attended a Red Cross nurse college for three years.
- She worked mainly as a nurse, first in Oslo from 1973 to 1977 before being a missionary in Arequipa from 1977 to 1982.
- She then moved to Fjell to become a nurse in 1983.She was a deputy member of Fjell municipal council from 1987 to 1991, and elected member from 1991 to 1995.
- She served as deputy county mayor from 2001 to 2003, and county mayor of Hordaland from 2003 to 2011.
- She chaired the countywide party chapter 2002–2006 and sat on the national party board.She also served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Hordaland during the terms 1997–2001, 2001–2005 and 2005–2009.
- In October 2005 she briefly covered for Laila Dåvøy who was an outgoing member of Bondevik's Second Cabinet.
- In total Nyborg met during 27 days of parliamentary session.Torill Selsvold Nyborg has been an eager spokesperson for a new regional level in the Government of Norway, and in 2005 she chaired Vestlandsrådet, an advisory political council for the four main counties in the region.
- She then accepted a visit from "pride minister" Øyvind Heitmann from Republic of Gulating, who is also promoting wider independence for Western Norway.
- She is also working to establish new railway lines in Hordaland, i.e.
- between Bergen and Norheimsund. Outside politics she was employed as a lecturer in nursing at the Diakonissehjemmet University College in 1994.
- She has been a board member of Bergenshalvøens Kommunale Kraftselskap, chaired the supervisory council of Bergen International Festival and been a supervisory council member of Modum Bad.She is married to the media scholar Geir Magnus Nyborg.
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