Lisbeth Berg-Hansen


Lisbeth Berg-Hansen is a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Labour Party.
She chaired the Norwegian Seafood Federation from 2002 to 2005, and was Vice President of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise from 2004 to 2008. In politics, she was a political advisor in the Ministry of Fisheries from 1992 to 1996, and State Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister from 2000 to 2001. On 20 October 2009, she was appointed Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs.
She is the deputy chair of the board of the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research, and a member of the board of Aker Seafoods, Fosen Trafikklag, Investinor, SOS-barnebyer and Bodø University College.
She lives in Bindal.

Conflict of interest

Berg-Hansen owns an 8% stake in :no:SinkabergHansen|SinkabergHansen AS, one of Norway's salmon farms, through Jmj Invest AS.
NMF, a Norwegian environmental group, filed charges against Berg-Hansen in 2009 claiming that her own economic interests prompted her to violate the regulations she’s supposed to enforce.
In November 2013 a France 2 documentary accused Berg-Hansen of relaxing the legal levels of toxins allowed in fish in Norway while at the top of health advisory committees and related research institutes.