Grete Knudsen

Grete Knudsen was a Norwegian Labour Party politician and a Member of Parliament for Hordaland from 1981 to 2001. She was Minister of Social Affairs (1992–1994), Minister of Trade and Shipping (1994–1996), Minister of Industry and Trade (1996–1997) and, in Jens Stoltenberg's first government, Minister of Trade and Industry (2000–2001). She died in 2023.

She was a keynote speaker at Mare Forum in 2000 and 2001.