Frank Bakke Jensen

Frank Bakke-Jensen is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He became the Norwegian Defence Minister on 20 October 2017. He was minister of EEC- and EU affairs from 2016 to 2017. He was mayor of Båtsfjord from 2007 until his election to the Stortinget from Finnmark in 2009. Bakke-Jensen formerly worked as a ship's electrician between Hammerfest and Tromsø, and has also worked as a teacher and self-employed pilot at Båtsfjord Airport. He has also performed military service in the UN Lebanon conflict.