Sylvi Listhaug

Sylvi Listhaug (born 25 December 1977) is a Norwegian politician serving as the leader of the Progress Party since 2021.

Listhaug previously served in several ministerial positions under Prime Minister Erna Solberg, last in brief stints as Minister of the Elderly and Public Health and Minister of Petroleum and Energy between 2019 and 2020. Before that, she served as Norway's first Minister of Immigration and Integration from 2015 to 2018, a specially created cabinet position during the European migrant crisis, and Minister of Agriculture and Food from 2013 to 2015. She briefly served as Minister of Justice, Public Security and Immigration in 2018. Originally from the rural municipality of Ørskog in Sunnmøre, she began her political career in Oslo as City Commissioner of Welfare and Social Services.

As Minister of Migration and Integration, Listhaug reduced the number of asylum seekers arriving in Norway from 30,000 in 2015 to 2,000 in 2017. Although the drop in asylum seekers was partially linked to an overall fall in traffic to Europe, Listhaug was credited with proposing and securing support for many new regulations and overseeing the tightening of the system, which resulted in a 19-year low in number of new asylum arrivals.She is currently serving as a member of the Storting and the Standing Committee on Health and Care Services. Listhaug has been called a "rising star" in the Progress Party by both national and international media. She has been mentioned by long-time party chairman Carl I. Hagen as a candidate to succeed Siv Jensen as party leader. Listhaug was constituted as First Deputy Leader of the Progress Party in September 2018.