Marit Knutsdatter Strand

Marit Knutsdatter Strand
Knutsdatter Strand in 2021
Member of the Norwegian Parliament
Assumed office
1 October 2017
ConstituencyOppland
Personal details
Born (1992-04-27) 27 April 1992
Lørenskog, Akershus, Norway
Political partyCentre
Children3
Residence(s)Beitostølen, Innlandet, Norway
Alma materNorwegian University of Life Sciences
OccupationPolitician

Marit Knutsdatter Strand (born 27 April 1992) is a Norwegian politician of the Centre Party. She has served as a representative to the Storting for Oppland since 2017.

Education

She attended Valdres upper secondary school from 2008 to 2011, and studied at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences from 2012 to 2017.[1]

Political career

Youth league

Knutsdatter Strand was leader of the Oppland Centre Youth from 2012 to 2014, and then leader of the Ås Centre Students from 2014 to 2015. She was also a member of the central board of the Centre Youth from 2015 to 2016. She was also chairwoman of the board of the Centre Party's Student Union in 2018.[1]

Parliament

She was elected to the Storting in 2017, where she currently serves on the Standing Committee on Education and Research, where she also serves as first vice chair.[1] She headed the Centre Party electoral list in Oppland for the 2021 election.[2]

In 2025, she announced that she wouldn't be seeking re-election at that year's election due to family reasons.[3]

Personal life

She and her family reside in Valdres. She has three children.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Strand, Marit Knutsdatter". stortinget.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Strand topper Sp-lista i Oppland". nrk.no (in Norwegian). NRK. 1 November 2020.
  3. ^ a b Storvik, Knut; Nedbaev, Aleksandr (11 June 2025). "Marit (33) takkar nei til Stortinget: – Stadig større krav" (in Norwegian Bokmål). NRK Innlandet. Retrieved 12 June 2025.