Øystein Djupedal

Øystein Djupedal
Djupedal in 2006.
County Governor of Aust-Agder
In office 1 October 2009 – 31 December 2015
Monarch	Harald V
Prime Minister	Jens Stoltenberg Erna Solberg
Preceded by	Svein Åril
Succeeded by	Stein A. Ytterdahl
Minister of Education and Research
In office 17 October 2005 – 18 October 2007
Prime Minister	Jens Stoltenberg
Preceded by	Kristin Clemet
Succeeded by	Bård Vegar Solhjell
Member of the Norwegian Parliament
In office 1 October 1993 – 30 September 2009
Constituency	Sør-Trøndelag
Personal details
Born	Øystein Kåre Djupedal (1960-05-05) 5 May 1960 Oslo, Norway
Political party	Labour
Other political affiliations	Socialist Left (until 2015)
Relations	Married
Children	3
Residence(s)	Trondheim, Norway
Profession	typographer

Øystein Kåre Djupedal (born 5 May 1960) is a Norwegian politician.

Djupedal was born in Oslo, Norway, and is the son of the linguist Reidar Djupedal. He is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party (SV), and was a member of Storting for Sør-Trøndelag County, where he has sat from the 1993 election until 2009. For two years, from 2005 to 2007, he was the Minister of Education and Research. He is also former deputy leader of the Socialist Left Party. From 2008 until 2015 he was the County Governor of Aust-Agder, although Svein Åril was the acting governor for him from 2008 until 2009 when he finished his Parliamentary term.