Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg

Astrid Heiberg Nøklebye ( born April 14, 1936 in Oslo) is a Norwegian physician and politician of the conservative party Høyre. She served from 1993 to 1999 as President of the Norwegian Red Cross and from 1997 to 2001, President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

Life

Astrid Heiberg graduated in Medicine in 1969 and completed her residency training in psychiatry from 1980 she received her doctorate. Since 1985 she is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Oslo. From October 14 1981 to October 10, 1985, she was in the Norwegian Government State Secretary at the Ministry of Social Affairs and from 18 April to 9 May 1986 Minister of Administration and Consumer Affairs. Since 1985 it belongs to the Storting, the Norwegian Parliament,. Within her party, she was in the years 1990/1991 Vice Chairman.

In addition to her political office she worked from 1993 to 1999 as President of the Norwegian Red Cross. In November 1997, she took over from Mario Villarroel Lander lawyers from Venezuela, the Office of the President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, becoming the first woman to head the organization. Her successor, the Spaniard Juan Manuel Suárez Del Toro Rivero was elected in November 2001. In November 2011 she was awarded the Henry Dunant Medal, the highest award of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

Astrid Heiberg has been married since 1963 and mother of two daughters.