Career
Since 2007 he has been county mayor of Nord-Trøndelag County Municipality. Prior to his election as county mayor in 2007, he chaired the Conservative Party group in the county council for 4 years and the county agricultural board for 12 years. Raised on a family farm in Mosvik, he passed the National Driving Teacher School and managed a driving school in Levanger from 1976 to 1982.
Since 1982 he has been a dairy farmer and forester in Mosvik.