Åslaug Haga

Åslaug Marie Haga (2005)

Åslaug Marie Haga (born October 21, 1959 in Nes ) is a Norwegian politician and Executive Director of the World Trust Fund for Crop Diversity . Before that, she was the minister of culture (1999–2000), local and regional minister ( 2005–2007) and oil and energy minister (2007–2008) of her country.

Education, Diplomatic Service and Politics

Haga studied political science at the University of Oslo , where she graduated with a master's degree. She went into the diplomatic service of her country and worked in the Norwegian delegation to the United Nations in New York in the late 1980s and in the Norwegian embassy in the Indian capital New Delhi in the early 1990s.

In 1997 Haga became State Secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs . From 1999 to 2000 she was Minister for Culture and Church Affairs under Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik . In 2001 she was elected to the Norwegian Parliament ( Storting ) for the Akershus constituency and was re-elected in 2005. When her Senterpartiet (center party) was in opposition in 2003 , she became party leader. It changed the party's course to the left, which finally led to the first coalition of the Center Party with the Arbeiderpartiet in 2005, led by Jens Stoltenberg and the Sosialistisk Venstreparti of Kristin Halvorsen in Norway. In this so-called red-green coalition , Haga succeeded Erna Solberg as Minister for Local Affairs and Regional Development . In September 2007, she succeeded Odd Roger Enoksen as Minister of Oil and Energy . On June 19, 2008, she resigned from both her ministerial office and party leadership. Haga justified her resignation with health problems. Before that, however, she had been caught in the crossfire of the media because a landing stage at her weekend house was built without a permit and the rental of an outbuilding of her private house had not been correctly reported to the tax office. Terje Riis-Johansen was her successor in her ministerial office . Liv Signe Navarsete succeeded her as party leader of the Center Party .

Sociopolitical engagement

From 2009 to 2011, Haga was Director of Renewable Energy at the Norwegian Industry Association. From 2009 to 2013 she headed the board of the Norsk institutt for naturforskning (NINA). From 2011 to 2013 she was Secretary General of Norwegian Air Ambulance , Norway's largest volunteer organization .

World trust fund for crop diversity

Haga took over in 2013 by Cary Fowler office as Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust (Engl. Global Crop Diversity Trust, GCDT), an international organization based in Bonn , which put the conservation of global biodiversity in the area of food and crops to the goal Has.

Web links

Commons : Åslaug Haga  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikiquote: Åslaug Haga  - Quotes (Norwegian)

• Storting biography (Norwegian)
• Portrait of Marie Hagas on the website of the World Trust Fund for Cultivated Plants Diversity
• Youtube video from December 15, 2013, accessed on November 4, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Aasa Christine Stoltz: UPDATE 3-Norwegian oil minister quits, successor due Friday . In: Reuters , June 19, 2008. 
2. ↑ Åslaug Haga resigns (Norwegian) VG Nett, June 19, 2008, accessed on January 25, 2012
3. ↑ Nina Berglund: Embattled cabinet minister steps down . June 19, 2008. Retrieved June 19, 2008.
4. ^ Nina Berglund: Stoltenberg unveils new government line-up . June 20, 2008. Retrieved June 20, 2008.
5. ↑ https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/klimawandel-auf-spitzbergen-viel-zu-warm-fuer-die.1773.de.html?dram:article_id=462192 Report by Deutschlandfunk from October 30, 2019, accessed on 4 November 2019
6. ↑ https://www.welt.de/wissenschaft/article156123133/Dieser-Samen-Bunker-soll-im-Ernstfall-die-Welt-retten.html Welt.de from June 15, 2016, accessed on October 4, 2019