Kjerstin Askholt


Kjerstin Askholt is a Norwegian civil servant. She is the Governor of Svalbard.
Askholt was the deputy director of Bredtveit Prison from 1990 to 1991, deputy director of the Ministry of Justice from 1996 to 1999, and was from 2003, deputy under-secretary of state at the Polar Department of the Ministry of Justice. She was appointed Governor of Svalbard on 1 October 2015.