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Siv Jensen (born 1 June 1969) is a Norwegian politician who has been Minister of Finance since 2013 and leader of the Progress Party since 2006. She represents Oslo in the Storting, the Norwegian parliament. Born and raised in Oslo, Jensen graduated with Commerce/Business Studies from the Norwegian School of Economics in 1992, and was employed as a sales consultant the same year. After failing to secure a seat in the Storting in the 1993 parliamentary election, she was elected in the 1997 election from the Oslo constituency, and has been re-elected for four consecutive terms. She chaired the parliamentary Finance Committee from 2001 to 2005, and in 2006 succeeded long-time chairman Carl I. Hagen as leader of the Progress Party. Jensen was the Progress Party's candidate for Prime Minister in the 2009 parliamentary election, which saw record high results for the party. For the 2013 parliamentary election she supported prospects of a coalition government headed by the Conservative Party, and led her party into the Solberg Cabinet, the party's first ever government, with Jensen becoming Minister of Finance. == Early life and education == Siv Jensen was born in Oslo to self-employed Tore Jensen (1926–1989), and Monica Kjelsberg (born 1939), owners of a shoe store during her childhood. While she holds that her neighbourhood was a nice place to grow up, her home was the scene of numerous burglaries. Her parents were divorced around 1980, and her father soon moved to Sweden. Her mother was for a short while active in the Ullern Progress Party, until finding out that politics was "not her thing".〔''Hele Historien: Siv Jensen'' (9 November 2006). TV 2.〕 After completing Marienlyst elementary school in 1985, Jensen attended upper secondary school at Oslo Commerce School in Oslo's Frogner district, graduating in 1988. Afterwards she enrolled in the Norwegian School of Economics, receiving her degree in Commerce/Business Studies in 1992.〔 She worked as a sales consultant for ''Radio 1'' from 1992, until dedicating her professional life to politics full-time in 1994.〔 Her political interest was according to herself sparked at her elementary school Marienlyst where discussions were common in class. These discussions would include two students who were members of the Socialist Youth, one being her socialist-turned best friend.〔 Jensen however soon found herself strongly opposed to their views.〔 She joined the Progress Party in 1988,〔 in part having been introduced to the party through her mother.〔 Sometime before joining the party, she had briefly been a member of the Young Conservatives, for about a week.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Siv Jensen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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