Trond Giske, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Trond Giske

Norwegian politician

Date of Birth: 07-Nov-1966

Place of Birth: Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway

Profession: politician, economist

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Trond Giske

  • Trond Giske (born 7 November 1966) is a Norwegian politician who served as deputy leader of the Norwegian Labour Party from 2015 until his resignation in 2018 as a result of the so-called Giske affair. In December 2017 and in the context of the international Me Too controversy, Giske was accused of an extensive pattern of sexual harassment and sexual assault of young women, leading to the so-called Giske affair, which dominated Norwegian media for several weeks.
  • After admitting to some of the accusations against him, Giske was asked to permanently resign by party leader Jonas Gahr Støre on 1 January 2018, which he subsequently did on 7 January 2018 shortly before the party executive committee were to debate the matter and shortly before Støre was about to state publicly that Giske needed to resign.
  • On 25 January 2018 the Labour Party ruled that Giske had violated the party's rules against sexual harassment and that his behaviour disqualified him from holding offices or positions of trust in the party.
  • In response Giske sought legal assistance against his own party.Giske was elected into the Norwegian parliament for Sør-Trøndelag county in 1997, and served as Minister of Education, Research and Church Affairs in the first cabinet of Jens Stoltenberg from 2000 to 2001, as Minister of Culture and Church Affairs in Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet from 2005 to 2009 and as Minister of Trade and Industry from 2009 to 2013.
  • As a cabinet member he several times faced accusations of cronyism by having appointed little-qualified close friends to well paid government jobs, which also led to formal inquiries into his actions in the Standing Committee on Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs.

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