Olaug Bollestad
Olaug Vervik Bollestad is a Norwegian nurse and politician for the Christian Democratic Party who is an MP for Rogaland since 2013 and Minister of Agriculture and Food since 2019.
She served as mayor of Gjesdal from 2007 to 2013, and was elected to the Parliament of Norway in the 2013 Norwegian parliamentary election where she was nominated in the first spot on the Christian Democratic Party's ballot for Rogaland. In 2015 she became the second deputy leader of the Christian Democratic Party.
Educated as a nurse, she worked as department manager at Stavanger University Hospital before she became mayor. She was elected to the municipal council of Gjesdal in 2003.
She is a member of the Norwegian Baptist Union.
