John Christian Elden (born 2 July 1967) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party, reputation management consultant and lawyer.

From 2013 to 2017 he was the Conservative Party's sixth deputy representative to the Storting from Oslo and met two days in the autumn of 2015.

[2] Elden graduated with a law degree from the University of Oslo in 1991, received a lawyer's licence in 1993 and a right to appear before the Supreme Court in 1999.

He was chief financial officer of Norges Gymnasiastsamband and Operasjon Dagsverk from 1985 to 1987, a storting journalist for the Conservative Party from 1987 to 1988, consultant in the Student Welfare Organisation in Oslo in 1991, research assistant at the University of Oslo from 1991 to 1992 and associate with his father, lawyer John Elden, 1991–1993.

In 2022, Elden served as the lead defence lawyer for Zaniar Matapour, the suspected perpetrator of the Oslo shooting that left two people dead and 21 others injured.