Ingeborg K Haavardsson

Tasks performed

• Managing Director of the Centre for Global Health at the University of Oslo.

Background

Ms. Haavardsson is a management and project administration specialist, with over 25 years of management and event experience. She worked as PRIO’s Director of Information from 1999-2005 and as PRIO's Special Advisor for External Relations from 2005-2016. She was instrumental in building up the Peace Research Endowment, an independent unit in the USA, and was its Executive Director from 2011-2013. Her previous employment is with the Norwegian Church Aid and the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration.

She holds an M.A. in International Conflict Analysis from the University of Canterbury, Kent, UK and a Cand. Mag. (French, History, Comparative Politics) from the University of Oslo and the University of Bergen.