Tove Astri Strand (born 29 September 1946) is a Norwegian director and former politician for the Labour Party.

degree,[1] and cited Leif Johansen and Nobel Prize laureate Trygve Haavelmo as inspirational economists.

Both daughters joined the Labour Party too, and Mina Gerhardsen, as political advisor for Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, has been considered particularly influential in Norwegian society.

[3] Tove Strand later married Tor Saglie, the director of the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Service.

When the cabinet Nordli assumed office in January 1976, she was appointed personal secretary (today known as political advisor) in the Ministry of Trade and Shipping.

She left in January 1979, to concentrate on her career as a civil servant in the Ministry of Finance, where she was promoted to assistant secretary (byråsjef).

However, its successor lasted only one year, and Strand returned in 1990 as Norwegian Minister of Government Administration and Labour in the third cabinet Brundtland.

From 1993 to 1994, she was deputy chair of the organization Sosialdemokrater mot EU, which opposed a Norwegian application for membership in the European Union.