This year's Norwegian government budget conference occurred at a hotel near Oslo. The informal atmosphere of the discussions ...

In 1981 Brundtland was elected Prime Minister at the age of only 42 - Norway's youngest Prime Minister and the first woman in the post. One of the first things she did was to introduce a 40% quota ...

Immediately after taking the helm of the World Health Organization (WHO, Geneva), Gro Harlem Brundtland, a former Prime Minister of Norway, has embarked on a substantial restructuring of the ...

By ANDREW ERAKHRUMEN Without necessarily going into a detailed history of the eventual establishment, in 1983, of the Brundtland Commission, formerly the World Commission on Environment and ...

La présidence de cette commission fut confiée à Gro Harlem Brundtland, alors Premier ministre de la Norvège et qui fut ensuite appelée à diriger l'Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS). Paru en 1987 ...

My husband and children have to take a back seat." Brundtland is quite unusual in that she succeeded in combining politics and power with a family: she has had four children. She was only able to ...

In Brundtland's family, politics was seen as important: her father, who was a doctor, twice served as a government Minister. At the age of seven, she was enrolled as a member of the Norwegian ...

Gro Harlem Brundtland is a former prime minister of Norway and director-general of the World Health Organisation (1998-2003), and a founding member of The Elders, an international non-governmental ...