Sveinung Rotevatn
Sveinung Rotevatn is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. Rotevatn comes from Nordfjordeid, Sogn og Fjordane, and has a master's degree in law from the University of Bergen. He has served as Minister of Climate and the Environment since 2020. Prior to that, he served as a state secretary at the same department from 2018 to 2020 under then minister Ola Elvestuen.
Rotevatn became the president of the Young Liberals of Norway, the Liberal Party's youth wing, in 2010 and was succeeded in October 2013 by Tord Hustveit.
In 2013, Bergens Tidende called him the biggest political talent in Norway.
Rotevatn was elected MP from the Sogn og Fjordane county constituency in the 2013 Norwegian parliamentary election. He failed to win re-election in the 2017 Norwegian parliamentary election, but was later appointed State Secretary to the Department of Justice and Public Security when the Liberal Party went into coalition government with the Conservative Party and the Progress Party on 17 January 2018.
In 2020, following the Progress Party’s withdrawal from government, he was appointed Minister of the Environment.
In May the same year, he announced his intention to run for the party leadership in September to succeed outgoing leader Trine Skei Grande. At the time, he became the first person to announce his run for leader following Grande’s decision to resign.
