Tom Kalsås was appointed as State Secretary in the Ministry of Transport on 4th November 2022.

Prior to this, he was Group Leader for the Rogaland Labour Party's County Council Group, and has previously worked as a lawyer with Haver Advokatfirma in the period 2011 to 2019, with the exception of the period 2014 to 2017 when he was on leave and held a position as Deputy Judge at Stavanger District Court. He has also worked as a production worker at Reslink AS.

He has been a municipal council representative in the Municipality of Gjesdal since 2011, and since 2019 a county council representative in Rogaland. In addition, he has functioned deputy representative in Stortinget from 2017 to 2022.

Kalsås has a degree in law from the University of Bergen and a Master of Laws Degree from the University of Heidelberg.