Frank Bakke-Jensen

Frank Bakke-Jensen (born 8 March 1965 in Båtsfjord) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He became the Norwegian Defence Minister on 20 October 2017.[1] He was minister of EEC- and EU affairs from 2016 to 2017. He was mayor of Båtsfjord from 2007 until his election to the Stortinget from Finnmark in 2009. Bakke-Jensen formerly worked as a ship's electrician between Hammerfest and Tromsø, and has also worked as a teacher and self-employed pilot at Båtsfjord Airport. He has also performed military service in the UN Lebanon conflict.

Frank Bakke-Jensen

MP
Minister of Defence
Assumed office
20 October 2017
Prime MinisterErna Solberg
Preceded byIne Marie Eriksen Søreide
Minister of European Affairs
In office
20 December 2016 – 20 October 2017
Prime MinisterErna Solberg
Preceded byElisabeth Aspaker
Succeeded byMarit Berger Røsland
Minister of Nordic Cooperation
In office
20 December 2016 – 17 January 2018
Prime MinisterErna Solberg
Preceded byElisabeth Aspaker
Succeeded byJan Tore Sanner
Member of the Norwegian Parliament
Assumed office
1 October 2009
ConstituencyFinnmark
Mayor of Båtsfjord
In office
24 October 2007 – 15 October 2009
Preceded byGeir Knutsen
Succeeded byGunn Marit Nilsen
Personal details
Born (1965-03-08) 8 March 1965
Båtsfjord, Finnmark, Norway
NationalityNorwegian
Political partyConservative

Career

Bakke-Jensen was elected mayor in 2007, despite the Labour Party winning 54.7 percent of the vote, and nine of the fifteen representatives in the municipality. After the elections for mayor saw many Ap split from the party, and when the elections saw two of the breakaway group elected. One of the breakaway group did not attend the nomination meeting, and the other did not vote with his party. Therefore, Bakke-Jensen was elected with the Conservative’s four votes, Progress Party's two representatives deciding not to support the Labour Party. As mayor, Bakke-Jensen decided that Båtsfjord should have its own high school within the municipality.

Bakke-Jensen entered the Solberg cabinet following a reshuffle in December 2016, when he was appointed Minister of European Affairs and Minister of Nordic Cooperation. Following the Solberg cabinet’s re-election in 2017, he was appointed Minister of Defence when then minister Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs.

In April 2020, he announced that he didn’t want to seek re-election to Parliament,[2] and in September he was nominated to become the new director of the Directorate of Fisheries.[3] He got the job (Director of Fisheries), and he is expected to start at work when his tenure as cabinet member ends (at an undetermined date). Bakke-Jensen has claimed that he did not call the Minister of Fisheries about the job; however, the Minister of Fisheries has told media that he has been phoned by Bakke-Jensen in regard to that job position.[4] Some MPs are expecting (as of October 2020) the government to explain in parliament, how the matter has been handled.[5]

Military service

From 30 August 1990 to 29 November 1991, he was in Lebanon as a soldier in contingents 26 and 27, where he was a radio operator in Tibnin in southern Lebanon.

Later, he spent several years in the Homeguard, where he took a squad leader and later a platoon commander course. He has also taken the elite course at the Norwegian Defence Staff College.[6]

Storting committees

References
  1. Ask, Alf Ole (2017-10-20). "Tre bytter i Regjeringen – Ine Eriksen Søreide første kvinnelige utenriksminister". Aftenposten. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
  2. "Bakke-Jensen does not seek Storting re-election" (in Norwegian). ABC Nyheter. 11 April 2020. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  3. "Defence Minister Frank Bakke-Jensen will become new Fisheries Director" (in Norwegian). E24. 21 September 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  4. SLIK FIKK HAN FATT I JOBBEN (14 October 2020)
  5. https://www.dagsavisen.no/nyheter/innenriks/opposisjonen-ber-om-redegjorelse-om-ansettelsen-av-bakke-jensen-som-fiskeridirektor-1.1789439
  6. https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/politikk/i/p0LPo/Norges-nye-forsvarsminister-er-FN-veteran
Preceded by
Ine Eriksen Søreide		 Minister of Defence
2017–		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by
Elisabeth Aspaker		 Minister of European Affairs
2016–2017		 Succeeded by
Marit Berger Røsland
Preceded by
Geir Knutsen		 Mayor of Båtsfjord
2007-2009		 Succeeded by
Gunn Marit Nilsen


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