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{{Short description|Norwegian politician (born 1966)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Harald Tom Nesvik
| honorific-suffix = [[Member of Parliament|MP]]
| image =   Harald Tom Nesvik 2E jpg DF0000301346.jpg
| imagesize = 
|office = [[Minister of Fisheries (Norway)|Minister of Fisheries and Seafood]]{{efn|Renamed Fisheries and Seafood on 30 August 2019.}}
|primeminister = [[Erna Solberg]]
|term_start    = 13 August 2018
|term_end      = 24 January 2020
|predecessor      = [[Per Sandberg]]
|successor=  [[Geir-Inge Sivertsen]]
|office1= [[Parliament|Parliamentary Leader for the]] [[Progress Party (Norway)|Progress Party]]
|term_start1= 17 October 2013
|term_end1= 2 October 2017
|leader1=Siv Jensen
|predecessor1= [[Siv Jensen]]
|successor1= [[Hans Andreas Limi]]
|office2 =  [[Storting|Member of the Norwegian Parliament]]
|constituency2 = [[Møre og Romsdal]]
|term_start2    = 1 October 1997
|term_end2      = 30 September 2017
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1966|5|4|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Ålesund]], [[Møre og Romsdal]], Norway
| nationality = [[Norwegian people|Norwegian]]
| party = [[Progress Party (Norway)|Progress]]
| spouse = 
| children = 
| alma_mater = 
}}

'''Harald Tom Nesvik''' (born 4 May 1966) is a [[Politics of Norway|Norwegian politician]] and member of the ''[[Storting]]'' for [[Møre og Romsdal]] from 1997 to 2017.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Soltveit |first1=Therese |last2=Drønen |first2=Ole Andreas |title=Nesvik named new Norway fisheries minister |url=https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/fisheries-minister-government-norway/nesvik-named-new-norway-fisheries-minister/1288678 |website=www.fishfarmingexpert.com |access-date=6 March 2024 |date=13 August 2018}}</ref> He is a member of the [[right-wing]] [[Progress Party (Norway)|Progress Party]] (FrP).<ref name=BBC /> He served as Minister of Fisheries from 2018 to 2020.

In 2002, Nesvik claimed that he had nominated [[Tony Blair]] and [[George W. Bush]] for the 2002 [[Nobel Peace Prize]].

==Early life and education==
Born in [[Ålesund]], Norway in 1966 to salesman Odd Nesvik (1941-) and homemaker Ragnhild Pedersen (1943-). He attended Ålesund senior high school from 1982 to 1985. He studied Export marketing at [[Aalesund University College|Møre and Romsdal College of Fishery Technology]] from 1991 to 1993. He also enrolled in the Military Defence College. Besides studying he worked in as a salesman for a local electronics store, as well as a bouncer for a local security company. He was a former football player with Ålesunds oldest club, [[SK Rollon]], and remains a die-hard supporter of that club along with local powerhouse [[Aalesunds FK]].

==Political career==
An early member of the Progress Party, Nesvik became politically active after finishing high school in 1986. A member of Ålesund municipal council since 1987, Nesvik quickly became chairman of the [[Progress Party's Youth (Norway)|Progress Party's Youth]] in Ålesund. He became chairman of Ålesund FrP by 1999. Before the parliamentary election in 1997, Nesvik was selected to run for the 10th seat in Møre og Romsdal county, which he gained. He has since been reelected to the ''[[Storting]]'' three times, serving four consecutive terms.

As the party joined the Conservative/Progress coalition government following the [[2013 Norwegian parliamentary election|2013 parliamentary election]], Siv Jensen was appointed Minister of Finance. Nesvik was then elected the party's parliamentary leader.

===Nobel Prize nomination===
In 2002 Nesvik achieved brief international media attention when he publicly claimed that he had nominated [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|British Prime Minister]] Tony Blair and [[President of the United States|US President]] George W. Bush for the Nobel Peace Prize.<ref name=BBC>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1801773.stm "Nobel nomination for Bush and Blair"], BBC News, 5 February 2002.</ref>

In his statement to the [[Associated Press]], Nesvik justified the claimed nomination, which was controversial to some, as follows: "The background for my nomination is their decisive action against [[terrorism]], something I believe in the future will be the greatest threat to peace... Unfortunately, sometimes... you have to use force to secure peace."<ref name=BBC/>

The 2002 Nobel Prize was in the end awarded to former US President [[Jimmy Carter]].<ref>[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2002/press.html Press Release – Nobel Peace Prize 2002<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

Non-winning Nobel nominations are kept secret for 50 years by the Nobel committee, so Nesvik's claim is not officially verifiable until 2052.<ref>[http://nobelprize.org/nomination/nomination_facts.html Nomination Facts<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604112819/http://nobelprize.org/nomination/nomination_facts.html |date=4 June 2011 }}</ref>

===Storting committees===
*1997–2005 : Member of the [[Standing Committee on Health and Social Affairs]]
*2005–2009: Chairman of the [[Standing Committee on Health and Care Services]]
*2009–2013 : Vice-chairman of the [[Standing Committee on Business and Industry]]

==Bibliography==
*''1997: Nesvik, Harald Tom, Giskeødegård, Otto : Produksjonslære for fiskeindustrien, Landbruksforlaget.

==References==
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==Notes==
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==External links==
*{{stortingetbio|HTN}}

{{Stortinget 2001-2005}}
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{{Stortinget 2009-2013}}
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