Kristin Ørmen Johnsen

Kristin Ørmen Johnsen, born on 8 March 1953 in Bærum, is a Norwegian nurse, educator and politician for the Conservative Party. She is a daughter of Kjell Ørmen and the nurse Ranghild Gerd Kringleboten, graduated in nursing science from the University of Oslo and later took an executive Master of Management at the BI Norwegian Business School. She worked as a nurse in Oslo and Dublin from 1977 to 1979, joined Buskerud University College in 1980 and served as its rector from 2004 to 2013, returning to the merged University College of Southeast Norway in 2021 as a member of the rector staff. In politics she sat on the Drammen city council from 1995 to 2003, was State Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development in the second Bondevik cabinet from 2001 to 2004, and represented Buskerud in the Storting from 2013 to 2021, where she first served on the Standing Committee on Health and Care Services.