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Torgeir Knag Fylkesnes

Politician

Torgeir Knag Fylkesnes is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Torgeir Knag Fylkesnes · تورجير كناج فيلكيسنيس				[sources]
Alias	Fylkesnes, Torgeir Knag				[sources]
Birth date	1975-06-04				[sources]
Place of birth	Tromsø Municipality				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Norway				[sources]
Country	Norway				[sources]
Citizenship	Norway				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Torgeir · Torgeir Knag				[sources]
Last name	Fylkesnes				[sources]
Political association	Socialist Left Party · Sosialistisk Venstreparti				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q15075009				[sources]
Position	Storting (member, 2013-2017) · Storting (member, 2017-) · deputy member of the Parliament of Norway (2001-2005) · member of the Parliament of Norway (2013-2017) · member of the Parliament of Norway (2017-2021) · 1 more...				[sources]
Education	University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-02-15	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Norwegian politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Storting	-	-
member of the Parliament of Norway	2021	2025

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,633

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Norway Members of the Storting254

Current and recent members of the Norwegian Storting, the national legislature.

Norway · Stortinget

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories339,278

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons271,351

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions505,033

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata326,304

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: no-storting-66ee16e16efb378855f735eb8175caec5e3ada7a · evpo-00277510-1a51-40be-a4ee-c6a143a25d08

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