Gro Harlem Brundtland

Gro Harlem Brundtland ( born April 20, 1939 in Bærum ) is a Norwegian politician and was three times Prime Minister (1981, 1986-1989 and 1990-1996). As the first woman she was 1981-1992 President of the Socialist Arbeiderpartiet (Ap).

Life and work

Brundtland was the daughter of the professor of medicine and Minister Gudmund Harlem (1917-1988) and the Swedish -born Inga Brynolf (* 1918) was born. Her sister Hanne Harlem ( b. 1964 ) was also Minister. Gro Harlem studied medicine at the University of Oslo and graduated in 1963 with the state exam. Until 1965 she studied Public Health at Harvard University. Then she practiced in Norway for several years as a doctor.

In 1960 she married Arne Olav Brundtland political scientist ( b. 1936 ), with whom she has four children.

Brundtland became involved early on in the youth organization of the Arbeiderpartiet, the work ern Ungdomsfylking, ON. Between 1974 and 1979 she was Norwegian Minister of the Environment. On February 4, 1981, she became the first woman prime minister, her government but failed in October of the same year.

She chaired the World Commission on Environment and Development ( also briefly dt: Brundtland Commission ) of the United Nations held, where he developed a broad approach political concept of sustainable development. The well-known as the Brundtland report final report entitled Our Common Future ( Our Common Future ) was published in April 1987.

Between May 9, 1986 and October 16, 1989 ( this cabinet was internationally known for eight of 18 ministerial posts were occupied by women ) and November 3, 1990 and October 25, 1996 Brundtland was again Prime Minister of Norway. In 1996 her Thorbjørn Jagland in office. From her post as chairman of the Arbeiderpartiet she resigned in 1992.

In May 1998, she was elected Director General of the World Health Organization ( WHO). After the regular five-year term, she was replaced on July 21, 2003 by Jong -wook Lee. Brundtland was declared in 2003 by the American science magazine Scientific American and the Policy Leader of the Year because she is coordinating a global campaign against the viral disease SARS. Then she got a teaching position at Harvard University as a Health Policy Fellow.

In May 2007, Brundtland was appointed, together with Chile's President Ricardo Lagos vormaligem and South Korean Prime Minister Han Seung -soo later by UN Secretary General Ban Ki -moon to the Special Envoy for Climate Change.

She is also a founding member of the Global Elders launched in 2007. There they committed themselves, inter alia, against child marriage.

Brundtland support the Global Zero movement, which strives for the universal abolition of all nuclear weapons.

The terrorist attacks in Norway on July 22, 2011 should also Brundtland fall victim to it, however, remained intact because they had the crime scene Utøya recently left.

Trivia

In the Oscar-nominated Norwegian film Elling based on the novel by Ingvar Ambjørnsen the main character turns out to be an ardent admirer of the " mother country " Brundtland.

Honors