2012 – 2013​

Member of the Board, Statoil, Norway

2009 – 2011​

Secretary-General, Norwegian Red Cross

2005 – 2007

​Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment (Norwegian Parliament /The Storting)

2001 – 2004

​Minister of the Environment, Norway

1994 – 1998 ​

Deputy Chair of the Conservative Party, Norway

1988 – 1990​

Chair, Young Conservatives, Norway

1997

BA in economics, law and history, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim

2024

Member of the UN Food Systems Advisory Board

2023

​Director, Philanthropy Asia Alliance Ltd

2022

​Member, Strategic Committee of the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po

2022

​Council Member, China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) Phase VII (2022-2026)

2021 - 2023

​Board Member, PMNCH/WHO - The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health

2020 - 2023

​Member of the Board of Directors, Technology for Ocean Foundation, C4IR Ocean

2019​

Member of the Steering Committee, Bilderberg Meetings

2018​

Member of the Board of Directors P4G – Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030

2018

​Core Advisory Council, Harvard International Negotiation Program

2016​

High-level Advisory Group Every Woman Every Child

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, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration

1995 – 2001

​Chair of the Conservative Party’s election programme committee

1991 – 1992

​Deputy Chair European Movement in Norway

1987

​Member of the Board Afghanistan Committee

1986 – 1988​

Deputy Chair, Young Conservatives, Norway

2024

​​Order of the Serbian Flag, first class

2018​​

Order of the Aztec Eagle, Mexico

2018

​​Grand Cross of the Order of San Carlos, Colombia

2005​​

Commander of the Royal Order of St Olav, Norway

2005

​​Knight Grand Cross, Italy

2004​​

Grand Cross of the Order of the Phoenix, Greece

2023

​​Honorary Doctorate Degree in Economics, National University of ​​Malaysia (UKM)

2023​​

Freedom of the City of London Award

2022

​​Honorary Doctorate, Azerbaijan State University of Economics

2020​​

Harish Mahindra Memorial Global Award for outstanding contribution to ​​Economic Welfare and Sustainable Growth

2009​​

Emisoft’s Sustainability Now Prize

2005

​​HSMAI Travel Award

2004​​

WWFs Gift to the Earth Award

2003

​​Sabima’s Biodiversity Prize (Biomangfoldprisen), Norway