Christine Korme is a familiar face to many from her 17 years as a reporter and anchor at TV2. In 2010, she left journalism and is now director of digitalization and renewal at Abelia , a trade and employers association for companies in the knowledge- and technology based sector. Christine has plenty of U.S. experience: She …

Calix Black Ndiaye is Senior Wealth Manager at Danske Bank in Bergen. Some will recognize him as one of Norway’s top basketball players. He played for Ulriken and Frøya, and was also captain of the Norwegian national team for several years. Calix managed to play basketball at a high level while preparing for his successful …

Hilde Eliassen Restad is a political scientist and expert on American politics. She is currently Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Bjørknes College in Oslo. Hilde has spent no less than nine years studying in the United States, starting with two years of high school at the United World College of the American West in the tiny town of Montezuma in New Mexico . After obtaining …

Many will probably recognize Dagfinn Høybråten as the former leader of the Christian Democratic Party (Krf), and as Norway’s Minister of Health and later Labor and Social Affairs from 1997 to 2000 and 2001 to 2005. Today, he is the Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers . He is also Chairman of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance , a public-private global health partnership committed …

Carl Fredrik Rehn is twenty three years old and about to finish his Master of Science degree at NTNU. During the 2013/14 academic year, he was on exchange at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts . Why did you decide to study in the United States? I wanted to go to an English speaking country for my exchange year from …

Ellen Sporstøl is the Assistant Editor of the Political and Business news section at NRK News . Before that, she was a TV news reporter at NRK and TV 2. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism and international studies from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she graduated in 2001.  She has also studied Spanish at the Universities of …

Thor Steinhovden (28) is from Florø, but lives in Oslo, where he works as an adviser at think tank Agenda . Before that, he worked in the Public Affairs Section here at the U.S. Embassy. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in political science and history from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota . He also has a Master’s degree in comparative politics from the London School of …

Kristin Skogen-Lund is the Director General of NHO , the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise. She is arguably one of the most successful people in the Norwegian private sector, previously holding leadership positions in companies like Telenor, Aftenposten, Scanpix Scandinavia, Scandinavia Online, Unilever and Coca-Cola. Kristin has an MBA from INSEAD in France. But before that, she got her bachelor’s degree in International Studies and Business Administration at …

Torbjørn Røe Isaksen should be familiar to most of you, as he is the Minster of Education! Torbjørn has a cand.mag. and a master’s degree in political science from the University of Oslo. In high school, he spent a year as an exchange student in Carl Junction, Missouri . Why did you decide to go on …