Career
He was appointed Minister of Agriculture on 16 December 2015. He was elected as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Møre og Romsdal during the terms 2009–2013 and 2013–2017. In total he served during 280 days of parliamentary session, until 2013 when he was appointed as a State Secretary in the Solberg"s Cabinet"s Ministry of Transport and Communications.
Outside politics he was employed in the meat and fish industry—among others in Nortura—until 2010, when he was hired as a political adviser in the Progress Party parliamentary caucus.