Øystein Mæland

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Øystein Mæland (born 1960) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

A medic by education, he worked at Aker University Hospital among other places. He was the leader of the local chapter of the Workers' Youth League from 1979 to 1982, and served as a member of Oslo city council in the period 1983–1986.

During the second cabinet Brundtland, he was appointed as personal secretary to the Minister both in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1988–1989) and the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (1988). In 1994, during the third cabinet Brundtland, Mælend was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice. He kept the position for the rest of Brundtland's tenure, and then a year into the cabinet Jagland under two different Ministers of Justice Anne Holt and Gerd-Liv Valla. In 2000, when another Labour cabinet Stoltenberg 1 took over, Mæland was again appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice. He held the position until after the 2001 elections, which caused the cabinet to fall.