Hanne Bjurstrøm (born 1960) is a politician representing the Norwegian Labour Party and currently serving as the Norwegian minister of Labour (The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Labour (Norwegian: Arbeidsdepartementet)) in the Red-Green Coalition government. She was appointed on October 20, 2009, but assumed her office om December 21, 2009. Prior to this she served in the cabinet as the Norwegian chief negotiator at The U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009.[1]