Norwegian Labour Party takes over development portfolio for first time in more than two decades

February 04, 2025

Following the Center Party’s exit from the coalition government of PM Jonas Gahr Støre, the MP Åsmund Aukrust has been appointed new Minister for International Development in the minority government. He will be the first Labour politician to hold the aid portfolio since 2001. Effecting social change is at the heart of his party’s development policy, he says.

New_Minister_of_International_Development_Mathias_Rongved.JPG — The new Norwegian Minister of International Development Åsmund Aukrust received the key to his office from his predecessor Anne Beathe Tvinnereim at the Foreign Ministry in Oslo. (Photo: MFA / Mathias Rongved)