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The Fafo Conference
February 15th-16th 2007
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Jon M. HippeDirector of Fafo and Managing director of Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research. Holding a Ph.D. from the University of Oslo, his research has mostly focused on the welfare state and labour relations, with special attention on retirement and pensions. Starting his career at Fafo in the early years, Hippe has also worked as a director in Storebrand and Telenor |
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Terje Rød-LarsenFounder and former Director of Fafo. President of the International Peace Academy since January 2005. He serves concurrently as the UN's Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1559. He began his career as an academic, teaching sociology, political science and philosophy at the Universities of Bergen and Oslo, before establishing the Fafo Institute for Applies Social Science in Oslo in 1981. In 1992 a research project led to a request to Rød-Larsen by the PLO to help establish a secret channel for negotiations with the Government of Israel. The subsequent talks concluded with the Oslo Accords and the signing of the Declaration of Principles at the White House on 13 September 1993. Rød-Larsen has served as an Ambassador and Special Adviser for the Middle East Peace process to the Norwegian Foreign Minister and as UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, holding the rank of Under-Secretary-General. |
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Gerd Liv VallaPresident of The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) since 2001, and leader of Fafo's board of directors and Fafo's Advisory Committee. BA in political science at the University of Oslo. Former Minister of Justice and former vice-president of LO. Valla also served as a State Secretary with former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland |
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Arvid HallénDirector General of the Research Council of Norway. A sociologist from the University og Oslo, Hallén worked as a researcher and Director of Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR) before starting his work with the Research Council of Norway in 1995. |
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Richard B. FreemanProfessor of Economics at Harvard University, Director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, Centre for Economic Performance. He has a wide range of research interests including the growth and decline of unions; self-organizing non-unions in the labor market; restructuring European welfare states; international labor standards; transitional economies; Chinese labor markets; crime; employee involvement programs; income distribution and equity in the marketplace; the effects of immigration and trade on inequality; and the job market for scientists and engineers. |
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Tone FløttenDr.philos, sociologist and Head of Research at Fafo. Research interests include welfare and living conditions. She's an expert on poverty and social exclusion in Norway and European countries and is currently a project director for Fami - Norwegian Centre for Research on Poverty and Social Assistance. |
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Jens StoltenbergPrime Minister of Norway since 2005. Prime Minister 2000-2001, Minister of Finance 1996-1997, Minister of Trade and Energy 1993-1996 and state secretary at the Ministry of the Environment 1990-1991. He has been member of parliament for Oslo since 1993. He has been leader of the Labour Party since 2002, deputy leader 1992-2002, and has been member of the party’s central board since 1985. Mr. Stoltenberg is Candidatus Oeconomiae (economist) at the University of Oslo. |
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Walter KorpiProfessor of Social Policy at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University. His areas of interests are comparative research on welfare state development in historical perspective, driving forces in social policy change, political sociology, political economy, inequality, class and gender. |
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Jon Erik DølvikDr.philos, sociologist and Head of Research at Fafo. His main research areas include the labour market, labour unions, European integration, globalization, working conditions and wage formation. Lately he has mainly been working on comparative industrial relations in Europe, currently related to EU-enlargement. |
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Hanne C. KavliCand.polit and Research Director at Fafo. Her research interests are introduction schemes for refugees and non-western immigrants and integration both in society and in the labour market. She's also done research on poverty and social exclusion. |
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Sigrun VågengExecutive Director of the Division for Labour Market and Social Affairs in the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO). Former Director of The Federation of Norwegian Process Industries and the federation of Norwgian restaurants and hotels. She's got an MBA from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration |
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Trine Lise SundnesConfederal Secretary of The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions. Her areas of responsibility is health and safety in the workplace, working hours, labour market policy and equal oportunity. |
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Per Kongshøj MadsenProfessor of economics at the Centre for Labour Market Research (CARMA), University of Aalborg. His main research interests are comparative labour market analysis and European employment policy. He is currently working with the European Employment Observatory on labour market research and evaluation services to the European Commission. |
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Grete BrochmannA doctor in sociology Brochann is currently senior researcher at the Institute for Social Research in Oslo. She is also adjunct professor in sociology at the University of Oslo. She has been visiting scholar at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium; University of California at Berkeley and she was in 2002 Willy Brandt professor in Malmø Sweden. She has published several books and articles internationally in the field of migration and immigration policies. |
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Anne Britt DjuveResearcher and former Research Director at Fafo. Her main research area is integration policies for ethnic minorities. She has conducted several studies of the shaping of integration programmes, and published on living conditions for ethnic minorites, effects of labour market programmes, employers perspectives on recruitment of immigrants, ethical implications of integration policies, and the changing role of "street-level beureaucrats" in the norwegian integration service. |
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Tove MidtsundstadResearcher at Fafo. Midtstundstad's main research areas include pension and disability schemes, early retirement, use of AFP, inclusion in the work place and the role of the employer, senior worker policy and employment benefits, pension schemes in particular. |
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Inger Lise Skog HansenSociologist and researcher at Fafo and the coordinator of projects on disablement and inclusion. Her research interests include living conditions, welfare state, social exclusion and marginalisation. She's currently working on issues relating to the disabled and employment and living conditions among the homeless. |
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Eivind FalkumResearcher at Fafo since 1994. Works with Enterprise Development Studies. Main topics are institutional and organisational conditions for restructuring, labour relations and enterprise development. |
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Bjørne GrimsrudEconomist and Research Director at Fafo. Responsible
for Enterprise development studies. Main research in labour market studies. Recent
work includes employee involvement in business restructuring in Norway as a feature
of the Nordic Model.
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Sigmund AslesenResearcher at Fafo, Aslesen's research focuses on the implementation of Lean principles within Norwegian shipbuilding industry. He is affiliated with Fafo's research and development project "Lean Shipbuilding - Innovative shipbuilding in a Norwegian context". He is now doing his Ph.d. within this field of research. |
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Kenneth PettersenProduction Manager at Ulstein Shipyards. A mechanical engineer, he have worked with production planning and management and project management. |
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Ragnhild SolheimExecutive Director of the Division for innovation, The Research Council of Norway. She holds a dregree in nutrition from The Norwegian University of Life Sciences. She has worked as a researcher and in the food industry. |
 | Stein Lier-HansenManaging Director of the Federation of Norwegian Industries. Formerly Managing Director of the Federation of Norwegian Process Industries. Mr Lier Hansen has held the position of director in the Directorate of Nature Management, and served as State Secretary in the Ministry of the Environment. He has also been employed as the Secretary Ceneral of the Norwegian Association of Hunters and Anglers (NJFF). |
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Stein StuguWorks as advisor in the research and competence center De Facto in Oslo. His work experience is mainly from the brewery industry and he's got broad experience as an union representative. He's been working with industrial policy and business restructuring. In De Facto his main areas are the EU Services Directive, restructuring in the health sector and equal pay. |
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Inger Marie HagenHas a degree in sociology from the University of Oslo and has been a researcher at Fafo since 1995. Industrial democracy, power and democracy, co-determination and participation, and collaboration between the social partners are her main areas. She is currently working on her PhD concerning employee representation at board level (EB). The EB-arrangement is considered a nexus of Industrial Relations and Corporate Governance in Norwegian companies. |
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Gro NystuenChair of the Council on Ethics for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund - Global. She is dr. juris and Associate Professor at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the University of Oslo. Mrs. Nystuen has been in the foreign service since 1991. She chaired the Government Petroleum Fund's Advisory Commission on International Law until November 2004 when it was replaced by the Council on Ethics and was also a member of the Graver Committee which proposed the ethical guidelines for the Petroleum Fund. |
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Richard LloydDirector General of Consumers International since September 2005. Richard Lloyd has a long history in the NGO sector, starting in the housing co-operative movement, and including five years as Head of Policy at Shelter (the campaign for homeless people), and six years as Director of Landmine Action, which played a leading role in the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Ban Landmines. In the latter capacity he was responsible for projects and partnerships in Africa, Asia and Europe.
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Mark B. TaylorThe outgoing Managing Director (2005 - 2007) of Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies. Mark has worked as a journalist and human rights advocate, and analyst for non-governmental organisations and the United Nations. His writing covers topics including the Middle East, war economies, conflict and human security, and business and human rights. He holds a B.A. in History of Religion from McGill University, in Montreal and an LL.M in Public International Law from Leiden University, The Netherlands. |
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Willy EgsetCorporate Social Responsibility Manager at Statoil, Norway. He is a political scientist with background in research and policy advising in the fields of poverty and conflict issues, with work experience from Fafo and, more recently, from the World Bank, where he was a Social Development Specialist from 2004- March, 2006. |
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Atle MidttunProfessor at the Department Department of Innovation and Economic Organisation at the BI Norwegian School of Management and Director of The Centre for Corporate Citizenship. He's also in the board of Centre for Energy and Environment. His research interests include innovation, organizational theory, corporate social responsibility, corporate strategy and og institutional economy.
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Sissel C. TrygstadSociologist and researcher at Fafo. Research interests are whistle blowers, organizational change and employee participation. Employed at the Nordland Research Institute untill 2004. |
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Jelle VisserSociology professor and Director of Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He has done research on industrial relations, trade unions, organizational behaviour, labour markets, social policy and welfare states. Among his current projects are the Dutch Collective Labour Agreements Database and Monitor (DUCADAM) and Female University Careers. |
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Torgeir Aarvaag StokkeResearcher and Research Director at Fafo. Doctoral dissertation (1998) on collective bargaining and dispute resolution in the Scandinavian countries. Has mainly worked with different aspects of collective actors, collective bargaining and collective labour law in the Nordic countries. |
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Finn Bergesen jr.Director General of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO) since 1999. Formerly Chief Executive Officer of Kavli AS, Director General of Norges Fiskarlag (The Norwegian fisherman's association) and a Secretary General of Norges Sildesalgslag. From 1973 to 1983 he served in the Ministry of Fisheries, having responsibilities on the area of international negotiations and international law. later as an attaché of fisheries in Washington D.C. and Ottawa. |
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Niklas BruunProfessor ofprivate law, University of Helsinki and Director of IPRUniversity Center. Formerly a professor in EU-Labour law at The Swedish Work Life Institute (Stockholm). |
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Lars HaukåsMaster of Law and Director General of The Employers` Association NAVO since 1994. Formerly a Chief Executive Officer of the NSB Group (Norwegian rairoad), organizational manager of Norsk Medisinaldepot and several positions in the Ministry of consumer's affairs and government administration. |
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Tore Eugen KvalheimPresident of The Confederation of Vocational Unions (YS) from 2006. Former head of negotiations in the Military Officers' Association. President of YS State Sector from 2001 and vice president of YS from 2003. |
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Wim van OorschotProfessor of Sociology at the Department of Social and Cultural Studies of Tilburg University, The Netherlands. His expertise regards social policy, which he studies from a European comparative, and cultural perspective. He is initiator and co-chair of The Network for European Social Policy Analysis, ESPAnet, director of the European Data Center for Work and Welfare, and Honorary Professor at the Center for Comparative Welfare Studies, CCWS, of Aalborg University, Denmark. |
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Gudmund HernesProfessor of Sociology, researcher at Fafo and former Director at Fafo. Hernes has a PhD in sociology from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore and became professor of Sociology at The University of Bergen in 1969 and later became professor at the University of Oslo. Served as Under-Secretary of Planning in Norway in 1980-81 and was Minister of Education, Research and Ecclesiastic Affairs in 1990-95 and Minister of Health 1995-97. Hernes was Director of UNESCO's International institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) based in Paris from December 1999 to December 2005, and was also UNESCO's Coordinator and Global Focal Point for HIV/AIDS 2000-2005. He was elected President of the international Social Science Council in November 2006. |
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Debarati Guha-SapirDirector of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) and Professor at University of Louvain School of Public Health in Brussels, Belgium. She holds an Adjunct Professorship at Tulane University Medical Centre (New Orleans) for Health and Humanitarian Aid. Trained in Calcutta University, Johns Hopkins University and University of Louvain, Brussels she holds a PhD in epidemiology. |
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Thanh-Dam TruongDr Thanh-Dam Truong is Associate Professor in Women, Gender and Development at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in the Netherlands. In the field of Women's Studies she is one of the first scholars to have provided an academic analysis of the problem of sex tourism. Her recent publications address the intersections between gender, migration, human security and foreign policy. |
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Jon PedersenResearch Director at Fafo and visiting professor at Nankai and Lanzhou Universities, China. Specialist in social surveys in conflict and transition countries. Have carried out surveys in a large number of countries, including Iraq, Jordan, Syria, West Bank and Gaza Strip, Eritrea, Haiti and China. Research interests include demography of conflict, economic development and conflict societies and household adaptations to conflict.
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May-Len SkilbreiSociologist and researcher at Fafo and the coordinator of projects on migration and human trafficking. Skilbrei has performed several studies on prostitution and trafficking for prostitution. In addition, Skilbrei has done research on issues of gender, class and ethnicity in Norwegian working life and on class and the politics of gender equality. |
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Morten BøåsSenior researcher at Fafo. He has written extensively about African conflicts and development. He is currently working on a book on autochthony, land rights and conflict in Central and West Africa. |
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George SorosGeorge Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC. Mr. Soros has been active as a philanthropist since 1979, when he began providing funds to help black students attend Capetown University in apartheid South Africa. Today he is Chairman of the Open Society Institute and the founder of a network of philanthropic organizations active in more than 50 countries in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the United States. In 1992, Mr. Soros founded the Central European University, with its primary campus in Budapest. Mr. Soros is the author of nine books including and a a graduate of the London School of Economics. |
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Jonas Gahr StøreMinister of Foreign Affairs of Norway. Gahr Støre was the special adviser at the Office of the Prime Minister of Norway (1989-95). He was Director General for International Affairs at the Office of the Prime Minister of Norway 1995-98 followed by the position as ambassador at the Norwegian Delegation to the United Nations in Geneva. His first major international position was as Executive Director (Chief of Staff) in the World Health Organization under the leadership of Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland. This was followed by a year as State Secretary and Chief of Staff for Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg (first Stoltenberg government, 2000-01). Before taking up the position as Foreign Minister he was Executive Chairman of Econ Analyse and Secretary General of the Norwegian Red Cross.
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