Hadia Tajik

Member of the Storting (Norwegian Parliament), Storting (Norwegian Parliament)

Hadia Tajik (born 18 July 1983) is a Norwegian jurist, journalist and politician. In 2015 she was elected Vice Chair of the Norwegian Labour Party, and vice head of the Labour Party Parliamentary group. She is also the Chair of the Standing Committee on Justice in Parliament. In 2012 Tajik was appointed Minister of Culture, and was then, at the age of 29, the youngest minister ever to serve in a Norwegian government. She was also the first ever Muslim, and the first of Asian heritage. Tajik has been a Member of Parliament since 2009. Previous to this she was political advisor to the minister of Labour and Social Inclusion, and to the Prime Minister of Norway – at the age of 24 at the time, the youngest ever to advise a Norwegian Prime Minister. By education Tajik has a BA in journalism, an MA in Human Rights and a law degree.

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