Ole D. Mjøs

Ole D. Mjøs, born 1939, is professor of medicine (physiology) at the University of Tromsø. He was the Chancellor of Tromsø University 1989-95. Since 2003 he has been the leader of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. He has been active in local politics in Tromsø as a member of the Christian People’s Party, and has also played a central role in educational politics at the national level, chairing the commission which was named after him as “Mjøs-utvalget”, which pioneered the Bologna-process in Norwegian higher education. In 1992, as the Chancellor of Tromsø University, he declared the university as an anti-racist zone and initiated efforts to make the Northernmost University of the World more internationally oriented. Ole Mjøs was the initiator of the Centre for Peace Studies at the University of Tromsø and is presently the chairman of the Board.

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