EDUCATION
Historian and administrator

PRESENT WORKING FUNCTION
Since 2000 Director of The Freedom of Expression Foundation (Fritt Ord)

PREVIOUS FUNCTIONS
1990-2000 Director General of the National Museum for Cultural History, Oslo

OTHER ACTIVITES
2000 Member or Chairman of several government commissions, including Chariman of the report on Norwegian Public Diplomacy and Cultural Cooperation.

2003- Past chairman of the Museums Association, The Non-fiction Association etc. Chairman of the board of Oslo City Museum.

PUBLICATIONS
Main publications within the fields of Scandinavian publishing and industrial history.

Extract of speakers' speech at Riga Seminar 2006: