Kristin Halvorsen (NO)
Kristin Halvorsen (born 1960) is director at CICERO Center for international climate research. Halvorsen is a former politician, was a representative of the Norwegian parliament from 1989 and a member of the Stoltenberg II government from 2005 to 2013. She was Norway’s first female finance minister from 2005 to 2009 and minister of knowledge from 2009 to 2013. Halvorsen was leader of the Socialist Left Party from 1997 to 2012. She has held various positions and was, among other things, chairman of the Biotechnology Council (Bioteknologirådet) (2014 – 2019), was a member of the Mork Committee in 2016 and the Climate Committee 2050 in 2022-23. Halvorsen is currently Vice Chair of CCICED (China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development), board member of Statkraft, chairman of the Crown Prince Couple’s Fund and deputy chairman of the board of SEI (Stockholm Environment Institute).