Nikolai Astrup (politician)

Nikolai Astrup MP
Astrup in November 2012
Minister of Local Government
In office 24 January 2020 – 14 October 2021
Prime Minister	Erna Solberg
Preceded by	Monica Mæland
Succeeded by	Bjørn Arild Gram
Minister of Digitalisation
In office 22 January 2019 – 24 January 2020
Prime Minister	Erna Solberg
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Linda Hofstad Helleland
Minister of International Development
In office 17 January 2018 – 22 January 2019
Prime Minister	Erna Solberg
Preceded by	Heikki Holmås (2013)
Succeeded by	Dag Inge Ulstein
Member of the Norwegian Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 October 2009
Deputy	Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg Camilla Strandskog Eirik Lae Solberg
Constituency	Oslo
Leader of the Oslo Conservatives
In office 28 January 2012 – 27 January 2018
Deputy	Kristin Vinje
Preceded by	Michael Tetzschner
Succeeded by	Heidi Nordby Lunde
Personal details
Born	Nikolai Eivindssøn Astrup (1978-06-12) 12 June 1978 (age 46) Oslo, Norway
Political party	Conservative
Children	3
Alma mater	London School of Economics

Nikolai Eivindssøn Astrup (born 12 June 1978) is a Norwegian politician representing the Conservative Party. He served as Minister of Local Government from 2020 to 2021.^[1] Previously he served as the Minister of International Development from 2018 to 2019 in Prime Minister Erna Solberg's cabinet, being the first since Heikki Holmås from 2012 to 2013. In 2019, he also became the first Minister of Digitalisation after the Christian Democratic Party joined the Cabinet, a post he served in until 2020.