Terje Riis-Johansen

Terje Riis-Johansen (born 15 March 1968) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.

Terje Riis-Johansen
County Mayor of Vestfold og Telemark
In office 1 January 2020 – 23 October 2023
Preceded by	Office established Rune Hogsnes (Vestfold) Sven Tore Løkslid (Telemark)
Succeeded by	Office disestablished Anne Strømøy (Vestfold) Sven Tore Løkslid (Telemark)
County Mayor of Telemark
In office 5 October 2011 – 13 October 2015
Preceded by	Gunn Marit Helgesen
Succeeded by	Sven Tore Løkslid
Minister of Petroleum and Energy
In office 20 June 2008 – 4 March 2011
Prime Minister	Jens Stoltenberg
Preceded by	Åslaug Haga
Succeeded by	Ola Borten Moe
Minister of Agriculture and Food
In office 17 October 2005 – 20 June 2008
Prime Minister	Jens Stoltenberg
Preceded by	Lars Sponheim
Succeeded by	Lars Peder Brekk
Member of the Norwegian Parliament
In office 1 October 1993 – 30 September 1997
Constituency	Telemark
Personal details
Born	(1968-03-15) 15 March 1968 Skien, Norway
Political party	Centre Party

Riis-Johansen was born in Skien. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Telemark in 1993, but was not re-elected in 1997. From 1997 to 1999, during the first cabinet Bondevik, he was appointed political advisor in the Ministry of Finance. In 2005, during the second cabinet Stoltenberg, he was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Food, but changed department in 2008 and served as Minister of Petroleum and Energy. On 4 March 2011 he was succeeded by fellow Centre Party politician Ola Borten Moe.

On the local level he was a member of Skien municipality council from 1991 to 1995. During the same term he was also a member of Telemark county council.

After the 2011 Norwegian local elections the local centre-right alliance was dissolved, and Riis-Johansen became Telemark's county mayor of a new centre-left coalition.

Riis-Johansen was a member of the board of Nei til EU from 1995 to 1997, of Telemark University College from 2000 to 2003 and of the Norwegian Farmers' Union from 2000 to 2005.

Riis-Johansen served as both the first and last county mayor of Vestfold og Telemark between 2020 and 2023, when the county was split into the new and re-established counties of Telemark and Vestfold. He was succeeded by Anne Strømøy in Vestfold on 18 October 2023, followed by Sven Tore Løkslid in Telemark on 23 October 2023.

References

• "Terje Riis-Johansen" (in Norwegian). Storting.