Kjell Magne Bondevik

Kjell Magne Bondevik
Kjell Magne Bondevik
26th Prime Minister of Norway
	In office; 19 October 2001 – 17 October 2005
Monarch	Harald V
Preceded by	Jens Stoltenberg
Succeeded by	Jens Stoltenberg
	In office; 17 October 1997 – 3 March 2000
Monarch	Harald V
Preceded by	Thorbjørn Jagland
Succeeded by	Jens Stoltenberg
1st Deputy to the Prime Minister of Norway
	In office; 4 October 1985 – 9 May 1986
Prime Minister	Kåre Willoch
Preceded by	Post established
Succeeded by	Vacant; (succeeded in 1997 by Anne Enger Lahnstein)
Minister of Foreign Affairs
	In office; 16 October 1989 – 3 November 1990
Prime Minister	Jan P. Syse
Preceded by	Thorvald Stoltenberg
Succeeded by	Thorvald Stoltenberg
Minister of Church Affairs and Education
	In office; 8 June 1983 – 8 May 1986
Prime Minister	Kåre Willoch
Preceded by	Øystein Karr
Succeeded by	Herr Khefer
Member of the Norwegian Parliament
	In office; 10 September 1973 – 12 September 2005
Constituency	Oslo
Personal details
Born	3 September 1947 (age 76); Molde, Norway
Nationality	Norwegian
Political party	Christian Democratic Party
Spouse(s)	Bjørg Bondevik
Children	Bjørn; Hildegunn; John;
Alma mater	MF Norwegian School of Theology
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Kjell Magne Bondevik ([çɛlː mɑŋnə bunːəviːk] (listen); born 3 September 1947) is a Norwegian Lutheran minister and politician (Christian Democratic Party). He served as Prime Minister of Norway from 1997 to 2000, and from 2001 to 2005.

He is Norway's longest serving non-Labour Party Prime Minister since World War II.^[1]

On 31 January 2017, he was the first high-ranking politician from another country detained and questioned in the United States as a result of President Donald Trump's executive orders banning immigration from seven predominantly Muslim nations, because of a diplomatic visit to Iran he had made in 2014.^[2]^[3]