Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Lars Sponheim (born May 23, 1957 in Halden, Østfold) is a Norwegian politician. He is leader of Venstre, the social liberal party, since 1996, and Minister of Agriculture since October 2001 in a coalition government leaded by Kjell Magne Bondevik from the Christian Democratic Party In 1981 he achieved a degree in agricultural science at the Agricultural University of Norway. He was elected as leader of Venstre in 1996. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.