Per-Kristian Foss (born July 19, 1950) is the Norwegian Minister of Finance. He has drawn much attention for being the first openly gay minister in a Norwegian government, and lives in a registered partnership.

Foss has a Cand.mag.-degree (political science, public justice and criminology) from the University of Oslo (1977) and partial graduate studies in political science. For the moment he is the deputy chairman of Høyre (the Conservative Party) and member of Høyre’s central board. He has been a member of the Norwegian Parliament (Storting), for Oslo, since 1981.

Though long expected to take over the chairmanship of Høyre after Jan Petersen, the sudden ascendancy of Erna Solberg prevented this from happening.

External links

• The home page of the Minister of Finance. (Norwegian)
• Foss' home page at the Conservative party, with press photos. (Norwegian)