Jon-Ivar Nygård

In early May, he expressed that the state might have to intervene when it came to payment for charging electric vehicles. He added that charging electric vehicles would have to become simpler, and solution could be ready in 2023.

On 27 September, Nygård expressed that the National Transport Plan (NTP, nasjonal transportplan) would be unrealistic, and that planned transport projects would be put on hold. He didn't specify which projects would be affected, as this would be revealed in the state budget for 2023.

In early January 2023, following a meeting with the Norwegian Railway Directorate, the Railway Authority and Bane NOR, Nygård announced that he saw the need for an investigation into the incident at the opening of the Follo Line. He also expressed that some of the information he was told in the meeting was "concerning". However, a few days later, Aftenposten revealed that Nygård had been informed about the incident on 23 December by Bane NOR despite him publicly saying otherwise. The opposition criticised Nygård's actions, with the Progress Party accusing him of misinformation. The Socialist Left Party said that the matter seemed to become "a bigger and bigger scandal". Nygård responded saying that Bane NOR had clarified that they had been uncertain about the cause of the incident on 27 December, but had narrowed it down to being the heating developments.

In a press release on 8 December, it was announced that the government would expand the compensation scheme for train companies and commercial bus and ferry routes. Nygård stated: "The pandemic has not developed as we had hoped. New national measures have now been introduced to limit the spread of infection in society. We therefore expect that fewer travelers will use public transport. The government is therefore in favour of compensating train companies and commercial bus and boat routes for reduced ticket revenues until March 2022. If the infection control measures so require, the government will consider further extension". He also stressed that if they were the make cuts in the routes too early, they would risk losing more travellers that otherwise would return.

After the government announced that they would be abolishing the aircraft passenger tax until 1 July 2022, as a part of new COVID-19 measures; Nygård commented: "The negative consequences for the industry may be more long-term, so that compensatory measures are needed over a longer period". He went on to say: "Without financial support, we risk unwanted and noticeable cuts in the route offers in aviation. This can lead to people who perform socially critical functions not being able to get to work, or patients not being able to get to and from the hospitals".

In January 2022, he and labour minister Hadia Tajik announced that the government would take action against "workplace crime" in the transport sector. Nygård assessed that workplace criminality can spread from one workplace to the other, and that the transport sector was one of the most vulnerable. Further that if one company utilised illegal means, other companies could catch onto it as well. He also assessed that it would lead to a non sensical competition in the market, and lead to eventual further downward spiral. Nygård went on to stress the importance of "clearing the conditions".

On 14 October 2021, Nygård was appointed minister of transport in Jonas Gahr Støre's cabinet.

Having previously been a deputy representative from 2013 to 2017, Nygård was elected representative to the Storting from the constituency of Østfold for the period 2021–2025, for the Labour Party. While part of the government from October 2021, Solveig Vitanza met in the Storting in his place.

Born in Borge, Nygård graduated as cand.mag. from the University of Oslo in 1998. He is lives with his partner, Anne Gro Bjerknes, and has three children from a previous relationship. He and Bjerknes married in January 2023.

He was member of the municipal council of Fredrikstad since 1993, and served as mayor of Fredrikstad from 2011 to 2021.

Jon-Ivar Nygård (born 2 January 1973) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He has served as minister of transport since 2021. He previously served as the mayor of Fredrikstad from 2011 to 2021.