Kristine "Tine" Sundtoft (born 19 April 1967) is a Norwegian civil servant and politician for the Conservative Party.
[2] She was regional director of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise in Agder 1995–2005 and was the first woman to serve as chief administrative officer in Vest-Agder County Municipality from 2005[3] until she became minister.
[4] After a year in office, Aftenposten evaluated her tenure so far as poor and didn't put forward the agenda herself, and that she seemed weak in debates.
[5][6] In April 2015, when asked if finance minister Siv Jensen's comments on climate change not being caused by humans would effect the budget negotiations for her ministry's field, Sundtoft dismissed it, arguing: "I am most concerned with what the government delivers in the field of climate change.
[7] In November, she was present at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, where she signed an agreement for continued forest cooperation.