Ingjerd Schou

Ingjerd Schou, born Ingjerd Schie on 20 January 1955 in Sarpsborg, is a Norwegian politician who represents the Conservative Party. She was first elected to the Storting, the Norwegian parliament, from Østfold in 2001, and in the second Bondevik cabinet she served as Minister of Social Affairs until a cabinet reshuffle replaced her in 2004. Her seat passed to a substitute during her time in government, and after the 2005 election she remained in the Storting as a deputy representative. Locally she sat on the executive committee of the Spydeberg municipal council from 1991 to 2003 and then continued as a Conservative councillor there. Before politics she worked as a nurse and then as a health bureaucrat. Later she served as Fourth Vice President of the Storting from 2013 to 2017 and Fifth Vice President from 2020 to 2021, and in 2023 she became chair of the parliamentary friendship group Friends of Israel.