Truls Aronsen Wickholm (born 15 October 1978) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He served as a deputy member of parliament for Oslo between 2005 and 2017 and later served as mayor of Nesodden between 2017 and 2021, when he became state secretary to minister of labour and social inclusion Hadia Tajik, a position he held until March 2022.
Political career
Parliament
He served as a deputy representative to the Storting from Oslo between 2005 and 2017. He deputised for prime minister Jens Stoltenberg between 2005 and 2009, and then for foreign minister and later health minister Jonas Gahr Støre between 2009 and 2013. He deputised for Stoltenberg in October 2013 until the Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet left office. He did so again between June and September 2014 when Stoltenberg became Secretary-General of NATO.[1]
In local politics, he became mayor of Nesodden in 2017 following Nina Sandberg's resignation to take her seat in parliament.[2] He was elected to a term in his own right following the 2019 local elections.[3] He resigned in 2021 when he was appointed state secretary to labour and social inclusion minister Hadia Tajik. He was succeeded by Cathrine Kjenner Forsland.[4][5]
Civic career
Following Tajik's resignation, Wickholm joined the PR company Zynk as a senior advisor in May 2022.[6][7] He later left Zynk and became director of energy at Samfunnsbedriftene in January 2023.[8]
Personal life
He is the son of Kåre Wickholm and Bente Aronsen, an administrative leader and senior advisor respectively.[1] He married Edina Ringdal in June 2019.[9]