Hans Fredrik Grøvan

Hans Fredrik Grøvan (born 1 November 1953) is a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party who was a member of the Storting from 2013 to 2021. He served as the party’s parliamentary leader from 2019 to 2021.

Hans Fredrik Grøvan
Christian Democratic Parliamentary Leader
In office 29 January 2019 – 30 September 2021
Deputy	Geir Jørgen Bekkevold
Leader	Kjell Ingolf Ropstad
Preceded by	Knut Arild Hareide
Succeeded by	Olaug Bollestad
Member of the Norwegian Parliament
In office 1 October 2013 – 30 September 2021
Constituency	Vest-Agder
Mayor of Lyngdal
In office 18 October 1995 – 17 October 2007
Preceded by	Anders Nøkland
Succeeded by	Ingunn Foss
Personal details
Born	(1953-11-01) 1 November 1953 (age 71) Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Norway
Political party	Christian Democratic

Career

Parliament

He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Vest-Agder in 2013. He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Vest-Agder during the term 2001–2005.

On 29 January 2019, Grøvan was appointed the party’s parliamentary leader after Knut Arild Hareide resigned from the position.^[1]

Grøvan ran for re-election for the 2021 election, but lost the nomination to Jorunn Gleditsch Lossius in November 2020. The party went on to lose five seats in Parliament in the election on 13 September 2021.^[2][3]

Grøvan was the chairman of the pro-Israel caucus Friends of Israel in the Parliament of Norway for a total of six years.^[4] His fondness for Israel goes back to him working at a kibbutz in 1972.^[5]

Local politics

On the local level he was the mayor of Lyngdal from 1995 to 2007. He was chairman of the board of Agder Energi to 2005.