Eirik Øwre Thorshaug (born (1976-04-11)11 April 1976) is vice president, head public and regulatory affairs for Telenor Group in Europe, and is a former Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

He started in politics in the industrial village of Hommelvik as a member of the Workers' Youth League (AUF), where he became leader of the local chapter in 1992.

At the AUFs Congress in 2002 Thorshaug was elected vice president of the Workers' Youth League, and served on the national board of the Labour Party.

[1] In 2004 Thorshaug was hired as political adviser for the Labour Party fraction of the Standing Committee on Justice in the Norwegian Storting (Parliament).

After the 2005 Norwegian parliamentary election Thorshaug was appointed as political adviser to Minister of Justice and the Police Mr. Knut Storberget.