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{{Short description|Norwegian politician (born 1950)}}
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| name = Per-Kristian Foss
| image = Per-Kristian Foss 20090913-1.JPG
| caption = Foss in 2009
| office= [[Storting|Second Vice President of the Storting]]
| term_start= 8 October 2009
| term_end= 30 September 2013
| president= [[Dag Terje Andersen]]
| predecessor= Position established 
| successor= [[Kenneth Svendsen]] 
| office1= [[Conservative Party (Norway)|First Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party]]
| term_start1= 9 May 2004
| term_end1= 27 April 2008
| leader1= [[Erna Solberg]]
| predecessor1= Erna Solberg 
| successor1= [[Jan Tore Sanner]]
| office2= [[Conservative Party (Norway)|Second Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party]] 
| leader2= [[Jan Petersen (politician)|Jan Petersen]]
| term_start2= 5 May 2002
| term_end2= 9 May 2004 
| predecessor2= [[Anne Berit Andersen]]
| successor2= [[Jan Tore Sanner]]
| office3= [[Minister of Finance (Norway)|Minister of Finance]]
| term_start3= 19 October 2001
| term_end3= 17 October 2005
| primeminister3= [[Kjell Magne Bondevik]]
| predecessor3=  [[Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen]] 
| successor3= [[Kristin Halvorsen]] 
| office4= [[Storting|Member of the Norwegian Parliament]]
| term_start4= 1 October 1981
| term_end4= 30 September 2013
| deputy4= [[Ine Eriksen Søreide]]
| constituency4=[[Oslo]]
| office5= [[Norwegian Young Conservatives|Leader of the Young Conservatives]]
| term_start5= 1 June 1973 
| term_end5= 1 June 1977
| predecessor5=  [[Jan Petersen (politician)|Jan Petersen]]
| successor5= [[Kaci Kullmann Five]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1950|7|19|df=y}}
| birth_name = Per-Kristian Foss
| birth_place = [[Oslo]], Norway
| party= [[Conservative Party (Norway)|Conservative]] 
| spouse = Jan Erik Knarbakk
| children =
| occupation = Politician
| signature = 
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'''Per-Kristian Foss '''(born 19 July 1950) is a Norwegian politician for the [[Conservative Party (Norway)|Conservative Party]] and from 2014 to 2021 the [[Auditor General of Norway]].

He was elected to the [[Storting|Norwegian Parliament]] from [[Oslo]] in 1981, and was re-elected on six occasions. He had previously served as a deputy representative during the term 1977&ndash;1981.

From 2001 to 2005, when the [[second cabinet Bondevik]] held office, Foss was [[Minister of Finance (Norway)|Minister of Finance]]. He also acted as [[Prime Minister of Norway|Prime Minister]] very briefly in 2002. During this period his seat in parliament was taken by [[Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide|Ine Eriksen Søreide]]. Foss has received much attention for being the first openly gay minister in a Norwegian government and lives in [[registered partnership]] with Jan Erik Knarbakk.<ref>{{Cite news |title= Norway names gay prime minister, briefly |url= http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2002/01/25/2 |date= January 25, 2002 |work= [[Gay.com]] |publisher= [[PlanetOut Inc.]] |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080613183432/http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2002%2F01%2F25%2F2 |archive-date= June 13, 2008 |url-status= dead }}</ref> He was the [[List of the first openly LGBT holders of political offices|first openly homosexual national leader]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.advocate.com/news/daily-news/2011/12/06/worlds-first-full-time-gay-male-leader-belgiums-elio-di-rupo|title=Worlds First Full Time Gay Male Leader Belgiums Elio di Rupo|date=6 December 2011}}</ref>

On the local level Foss was a deputy member of [[Oslo]] city council from 1971 to 1975.

From 1973 to 1977 he was the leader of the [[Norwegian Young Conservatives|Young Conservatives]] (''Unge Høyre''), the youth wing of the Conservative Party. Per Kristian Foss was mentioned as a possible new leader for the Conservative Party after [[Jan Petersen (politician)|Jan Petersen]] resigned in 2004, but he declined to run and instead supported [[Erna Solberg]].<ref>Carl A. Dahl: [http://www.dn.no/forsiden/article158559.ece Foss vil ikke lede Høyre] DN, February 2, 2004. Retrieved December 6, 2012</ref> After Høyre struggled in elections and polls during the first years of Erna Solberg's leadership he was also mentioned as a possible new leader,<ref>[http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/politikk/Solberg---Foss-kan-vare-et-naturlig-navn-5575318.html Solberg: - Foss kan være et naturlig navn] Aftenposten, 2009/2011. Retrieved December 6, 2012</ref> but he never challenged Solberg for the leadership position. At present Foss is deputy chairman of the Conservative Party and member of the party's central board.

Foss has a [[cand.mag.]] degree in [[political science]], public law and [[criminology]] from the [[University of Oslo]] (1977) and partial graduate studies in political science.

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Stortingetbio|PKF}}

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