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Tone Wilhelmsen Trøen
Trøen in 2018
President of the Storting
In office 15 March 2018 – 30 September 2021
Monarch	Harald V
Prime Minister	Erna Solberg
Preceded by	Olemic Thommessen
Succeeded by	Eva Kristin Hansen
Deputy Parliamentary Leader of the Conservative Party
In office 30 January 2018 – 15 March 2018
Leader	Trond Helleland
Preceded by	Nikolai Astrup
Succeeded by	Svein Harberg
Member of the Storting
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 October 2013
Constituency	Akershus
Personal details
Born	(1966-02-23) 23 February 1966 (age 58) Bærum, Akershus, Norway
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Ove Trøen
Children	1
Alma mater	Oslo Metropolitan University
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Nurse

Tone Wilhelmsen Trøen (born 23 February 1966) is a Norwegian politician from the Conservative Party who is a member of the Storting for Akershus since 2013 and served as the President of the Storting from 2018 to 2021.

Personal life

Born in Bærum on 23 February 1966, Trøen is a daughter of factory manager John Willy Wilhelmsen and secretary Anne-Marie Christiansen. She is married to Ove Trøen, together they have one son.

Political career

Parliament

First elected from Akershus in 2013, she was a member of the Standing Committee on Health and Care Services in her first term as member of parliament. Trøen was reelected in 2017 and appointed to the Election Committee and also as chair of the Standing Committee on Family and Cultural Affairs.

After the Solberg cabinet's defeat in the 2021 election, Trøen became the chair of the Standing Committee on Health and Care Services.

President of the Storting

Following Olemic Thommessen's resignation as President of the Storting, she became the Conservative Party's candidate to replace him as President on 14 March 2018. She was formally elected as the day after. She is the second woman to have served as President of the Storting, the first being Kirsti Kolle Grøndahl of the Labour Party, who served from 1993 until 2001.

In March 2021, the Storting was the victim of a cyber attack. Trøen called it "an attack on our democracy" and noted that the attack had the potential to disturb parliamentary processes.

In September, after several media revelations of MPs misusing parliamentary commuter homes and the severance pay scheme, Trøen announced that the Storting presidency would be looking into the matter. A revelation of the former later lead to the resignation of minister of children and families Kjell Ingolf Ropstad. A few days later, it was also revealed that Trøen herself also had misused her parliamentary commuter home by allowing her son to utilise it as a student dormitory. She argued that nothing in the rules prohibited the home for such usage.

References

1. ^ "Trøen, Tone Wilhelmsen (1966-)". Stortinget.no. (in Norwegian). Retrieved 8 June 2023.
2. "Stortingspresidenten er gift med fetteren til hotelleier – medvirket i promovideo" (in Norwegian). Agderposten. 25 June 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
3. "– Ta aldri demokratiet for gitt" (in Norwegian). Forsvarets forum. 18 December 2018. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
4. "Tina Bru blir Høyres finanspolitiske talsperson" (in Norwegian). ABC Nyheter. 18 October 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
5. Wallenius, Hege. "Tone Trøen er Stortingets nye president". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Retrieved 16 March 2018.
6. "Tone Trøen blir ny stortingspresident". nrk.no (in Norwegian). NRK. 14 March 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
7. "Stortinget utsatt for IT-angrep: «Et angrep på vårt demokrati»" (in Norwegian). Aftenposten. 10 March 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
8. "Stortingets presidentskap går gjennom ordninger etter medieavsløringer" (in Norwegian). E24. 9 September 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
9. "Stortingets ekspresident lot voksen sønn bo i pendlerboligen i flere år" (in Norwegian). Nettavisen. 23 September 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2022.

• Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
• Presidents of the Storting
• Akershus politicians
• 1966 births
• Living people
• Members of the Storting 2021–2025
• Members of the Storting 2017–2021
• Members of the Storting 2013–2017