Tora Aasland
Aasland in 2006
Minister of Research and Higher Education
In office 18 October 2007 – 23 March 2012
Prime Minister	Jens Stoltenberg
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Iselin Nybø (2018)
Member of the Norwegian Parliament
In office 1 October 1985 – 30 September 1993
Constituency	Akershus
Governor of Rogaland
In office 23 March 2012 – 1 October 2013
Preceded by	Harald Torfinn Thune (acting)
Succeeded by	Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa
In office 1 October 1993 – 18 October 2007
Preceded by	Harald Torfinn Thune (acting)
Succeeded by	Harald Thorfinn Thune (acting)
Vice President of the Odelsting
In office 10 October 1989 – 30 September 1993
President	Inger Lise Gjørv
Preceded by	Kåre Kristiansen
Succeeded by	Dag Jostein Fjærvoll
Personal details
Born	(1942-11-06) 6 November 1942 (age 82) Skien, Telemark, Norway
Political party	Socialist Left

Tora Aasland (born 6 November 1942, in Skien) is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party. She served as the Minister of Research and Higher Education from 18 October 2007 to 23 March 2012. She was a member of the Norwegian Parliament, representing Akershus, from 1985 to 1993. From 1991 to 2013, she served as the County Governor of Rogaland.

Aasland was a deputy member of the executive committee of Nesodden municipality council during the terms 1975–1979 and 1979–1983.

Aasland has a cand.sociol. degree in sociology and was a researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Social Research from 1976 to 1982, and its acting director from 1980 to 1981. She has cited Vilhelm Aubert as her largest influence.^[1]

• "Tora Aasland" (in Norwegian). Storting.
• Regjeringen.no - C.V.