Kristian Norheim (born 19 April 1976) is a Norwegian politician who has been a member of the Stortinget as an alternate for State Secretary Bård Hoksrud.

[4][5] Before the 2013 election Norheim was responsible for international issues as group secretary, and covered this field as advisor to party leader Siv Jensen.

[1] He took part in the 2010 Balkans seminar in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, arranged by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.

[7] In a 2010 article about the Progress Party, Jay Nordlinger of National Review wrote that Norheim’s office “must be the most politically incorrect room in Scandinavia.

And that’s only a fraction of the inventory.”[8] Before and after the 2013 elections, Norheim has frequently been identified in the media as the Progress Party's foreign-policy spokesman.

[9] In September 2013, when the Progress Party held a major press conference for international journalists to dispel any myths about its political orientation.

[8] Norheim has defended the Progress Party's criticism of female genital mutilation, forced marriage, and other examples of “ukultur,” or culturally negative practices.

[15] Norheim has written that “Norway will and should be a secular state” but added that “this does not mean we are also obliged to clear away everything that reminds us of the more than thousand-year-old Christian heritage.”[14] Norheim has condemned the now-defunct Workers' Communist Party (Marxist- Leninist), of which many leading Norwegians were once members, saying that the world that party fought for “was no more fair than the world Quisling and his foreign beacons fought for.”[14] During the 2013 election campaign, Norheim said that “in [his] heart” he supported Norwegian membership in the European Union, but has describes himself as a “non-practicing EU supporter,” owing to his concern about “the growing bureaucracy in Brussels".

[17] After businessman George James Tsunis, U.S. President Barack Obama's nominee for Ambassador to Norway, made international headlines with uninformed and incendiary comments about the Progress Party during a Senate committee hearing in January 2014, Norheim said he has "been in dialogue" with the U.S. Embassy about Tsunis's remarks, which he described as problematic.