Work experience:

2011 - 2013 Managing Director, World Economic Forum, Geneva

2012 - 2013 Member of the Board, Statoil

2010 - 2013 Chair of the Board, Mesta

2009 - 2011 Secretary General, Norwegian Red Cross

2008 - 2009 Managing Director, World Economic Forum, Geneva

2005 - 2013 Member of the China Council fo International Environment and Development                                                                                    (advisory body to the State Council)     

2005 - 2009 Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment

                       (Norwegian Parliament / the Storting)

2004 - 2005 Minister of Trade and Industry

2003 - 2004 Chair, UN Commission on Sustainable Development

2001 - 2004 Minister of the Environment

1997 - 2001 Member of the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs

                       (Norwegian Parliament / the Storting)

1994 - 1998 Deputy Chair of the conservative party

1992 - 1997 Member of the Municipal Executive Board, Trondheim

1990 - 1992 Chief Financial Officer, KB-entreprenør, Trondheim

1988 - 1990 Chair, Young Conservatives

1986 - 1987 Political adviser to the leader of the party

1985 - 1986 Political adviser, Young Conservatives

Education

1997             BA om economics, law and history, NTNU, Trondheim

Appointments

2010 - 2011 Deputy Chair, Humanitarian Principles and Diplomacy Advisory Body,

                       International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

2010 - 2011 Deputy Chair, Advisory Board, Norwegian Defence University College

2009 - 2012 Member of the Board of Trustees, Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights

2009 - 2012 Member of the Board, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration

1995 - 2001 Chair of the party's election programme committee

1991 - 1992 Deputy Chair European movement

1987              Member of the Board Afghanistan committee

1986 - 1988 Deputy Chair, Young Conservatives

Medals and awards

2005             Commander of the Order of St Olav

2005             Knight Grand Cross, Italy

2004             Grand Cross of the Order of the Phoenix, Greece

2009             Emisoft's Sustainability Now prize

2004             WWF's Gift to the Earth award

2005             HSMAI Travel Award

2003             Sabima's biodiversity prize (Biomangfoldprisen)