Grete Faremo

Grete Faremo (2009)

Grete Faremo (born July 16, 1955 in Arendal ) is a Norwegian politician of the Workers' Party ( Arbeiderpartiet ) and since 2014 Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS).

Life and work

Grete Faremo studied at the University of Oslo Law and graduated with a Master's from. Faremo held a leading position for Storebrand insurance from 1997 to 2003 and then at Microsoft in Norway until 2008 . From 2006 she worked for Norsk Hydro (since November 2007 as Deputy CEO). She gave up this post when she joined the Norwegian government in October 2009.

Career

Grete Faremo was Minister for Development Cooperation from 1990 to 1992, Minister of Justice from 1992 to 1996, and Norwegian Minister of Oil and Energy in 1996 . She was also a member of Parliament in Storting for her party from 1993 to 1997 .

On October 20, 2009, she became Minister of Defense . She took over the office from Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen . On November 11, 2011, she moved to the Ministry of Justice to succeed Knut Storberget . After the parliamentary elections in 2013 , the red-green coalition lost its majority and had to give up the ministerial office.

Faremo was appointed Executive Director of the United Nations Project Services Office (UNOPS) in Copenhagen on May 7, 2014, and took office in August 2014.

Private

Faremo is a declared supporter of the International Gender Champions initiative , which aims to achieve gender equality in international institutions.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Grete Faremo on Hydro.com. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 1, 2009 ; Retrieved October 29, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Grete Faremo new Minister of Defense. Regjeringen.no , accessed on October 28, 2009 (English). 
3. ↑ Knut Storberget går av. Accessed November 11, 2011 . 
4. ↑ https://www.unops.org/about/our-story/leadership/grete-faremo accessed on December 29, 2019
5. ↑ https://genderchampions.com/champions/grete-faremo accessed on December 29, 2019

Web links

Commons : Grete Faremo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• CV at the Ministry of Defense of Norway
• Storting biography (Norwegian)
• Video: Grete Faremo on the tasks of UNOPS, published December 16, 2015