Lan Marie Berg
Norwegian politician (born 1987)
Lan Marie Nguyen Berg (born 4 March 1987) is a Norwegian politician from the Green Party. She served as a Member of Parliament for Oslo from 2021 to 2025 and was one of the party's deputy leaders from 2022 to 2025. Prior to this, Berg held the position of Oslo City Commissioner for Transport and Environment from 2015 to 2021, stepping down after a confidence vote.
Education
Berg was born in Oslo. She has a master's degree from the Center for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo. She wrote her master's thesis on the use of solar power in a Kenyan village.
Career
Berg joined the environmental organisation Spire in 2009, and worked for the Oslo Mela Festival. She was also part of an environmental blog collective called "Grønne jenter" (English: Green Girls), part of a group of ten women who wrote about environmentally conscious fashion, food and lifestyle. Berg was first elected to the Oslo city council in the 2015 Norwegian local elections, after being nominated as the first candidate for the Green Party in Oslo in September 2014.
On 10 October 2022, she was designated first deputy leader of her party, with Arild Hermstad as leader.
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