Sylvi Listhaug

Sylvi Listhaug (born 25 December 1977) is a Norwegian politician who has been the Leader of the Opposition since 2025 and leader of the Progress Party since 2021. Listhaug previously served in several cabinet positions under Prime Minister Erna Solberg, last in brief stints as Minister of the Elderly and Public Health and Minister of Petroleum and Energy between 2019 and 2020. Before that, , and Minister of Agriculture and Food from 2013 to 2015, she served as Minister of Immigration and Integration from 2015 to 2018. Her term as Minister of Immigration and Integration saw the number of asylum seekers arriving in Norway reduced from 30,000 in 2015 to 2,000 in 2017. She briefly served as Minister of Justice, Public Security and Immigration in 2018. Originally from the rural Ørskog Municipality in Sunnmøre, Listhaug began her political career in Oslo as City Commissioner of Welfare and Social Services. She is currently serving as a member of the Storting and the Standing Committee on Health and Care Services.