Kristin Krohn Devold

Kristin Krohn Devold Margrethe ( born August 12, 1961 in Bergen, Norway ) is a politician and economist. She was from 2001 to 2005 Norwegian defense minister in the second cabinet Bondevik. She is a member of the Conservative Party Høyre.

She graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics and graduated in 1985 with a Master of Science degree.

In 1993, she was first elected to the Norwegian Parliament, the Storting, to which it belonged until 2005 in three consecutive parliamentary terms for the electoral district of Oslo. As Krohn Devold Minister was criticized, after budget irregularities were summed up in the Ministry of Defence to over one billion Norwegian kroner. Parliament launched investigations against them, but they were closed early.

Krohn Devold of Norway supported the participation in the Iraq war and the war on terror in Afghanistan. It was traded in 2003 as a possible candidate for the succession of the NATO Secretary General George Robertson, but eventually the Dutchman Jaap de Hoop Scheffer was given preference.

Krohn Devold is married and has two children.