Aud Gustad

Aud Solveig Gustad, née Lund Olsen (1 May 1917 – 30 April 2000) was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Communist and Socialist Left parties.

She was born in Trondheim as a daughter of worker Jens Valdemar Lund Olsen (1894–1970) and cleaner Jenny Oline Emilie Hansen (1896–1966).

She finished her secondary education at Trondheim Cathedral School in 1937 and started as a journalist in Ny Tid in the same year.

From 1969 to 1970 she changed job to assistant at the Social School, and chaired the Trondheim branch of the progressive women's league Norsk Kvinneforbund.

[1] In 1977 she withdrew from electoral politics to move to Oslo and work as a secretary for the Norwegian Heart and Lung Patient Organization nationwide.