2001 - 2013

  Member of the Storting for Akershus County

2001 - 2013: 

Member of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Enlarged Foreign Affairs Committee

2009 - 2013:

Head of the Norwegian delegation to the Arctic parliamentary cooperation

2005 - 2009: 

Head of the Norwegian delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly

2005 – 2009: 

Second Deputy Head of the Norwegian Delegation for Relations with the European Parliament

2005 - 2009: 

Deputy member of the Norwegian delegation to the EFTA and EEA Parliamentary Committees

2001 - 2005: 

Head of the Norwegian delegation to the EFTA and EEA Parliamentary Committees

2001 - 2005 : 

Member of the Norwegian Delegation for Relations with the European Parliament

2001 - 2005 : 

Deputy member of the Norwegian Delegation to the Assembly of Western European Union

1995 - 2003: 

Deputy Mayor, Asker

1989 - 1991: 

Deputy Mayor, Ski 

2000 - 2001: 

Political adviser, Progress Party parliamentary group

1997 - 2000: 

Chair of the political department of the Progress Party

1994 - 1997: 

Political adviser, Progress Party

1993 - 1994: 

Chair of the Progress Party research institute

1990 - 1993: 

Project and planning officer, Progress Party

1993 - 1994: 

Course on Norway, the EU and the EEA at the Norwegian School of Management BI

1987: 

Wichita State University, Kansas, USA

1982 - 1983: 

American Fork High School, Utah, USA