Director General of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, Norad

Mr. Bård Vegard Solhjell is the Director-General of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad). He previously served as the Secretary-General of the World Wide Fund for Nature, Norway. From 2001 to 2017 Mr. Solhjell held senior positions at the Norwegian Socialist Left Party (SV). He was a member of the Parliament from 2013 to 2017 and prior to that he was Minister of Education 2007-2009 and Minister of the Environment 2012-2013. Mr. Solhjell holds a master’s degree in Political Science, with Sociology, Comparative Politics, and History of Ideas, from the University of Oslo and University of Bergen.

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