Marit Slagsvold
Marit Slagsvold is a Norwegian minister in the Church of Norway, sociologist, author and researcher. She is the wife of Jonas Gahr Støre, the Prime Minister of Norway.
Career
Slagsvold earned her magister degree in sociology at the University of Oslo in 1991 with a dissertation titled Nyetableringer og nettverk. She was a civil servant in the Ministry of Children and Families from 1991 to 2003, and then became a researcher at Oslo University College where she worked on research on social inclusion. She has published three books on friendship, young people's grief particularly after the loss of a close relative, and social relations.Shortly after the 2021 Norwegian parliamentary election it was reported that she would be ordained as a minister in the Lutheran state church of Norway, the Church of Norway, by the Bishop of Oslo Kari Veiteberg, on 19 September 2021. She completed studies in theology at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society in 2020. Since January 2021 she has worked as a minister in Uranienborg parish.