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| Anne Grete Hestnes was trained as an architect, with degrees from M.I.T. and UC Berkeley,
and has more than 25 years of experience in teaching, research, and development. She is presently
Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
where she has been full professor since 1985. She has also been visiting professor at Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratories at the University of California at Berkeley and at the Laboratoire d'Energie Solaire in
École Polytechnque Fedérale (EPFL) in Lausanne.
Her main scientific interest is in the areas of energy conservation and the use of solar energy in buildings.
In these fields in she has more than 80 international publications. She is frequently invited to lecture both
in Norway and abroad, and she is used as a jury member in both national and international architectural
competitions where energy use is an issue. She is associate editor of the journal "Solar Energy", and she
is President of the International Solar Energy Society.
For the past 15 years she has also been project manager for large scale international research projects
on solar buildings within the International Energy Agency's Solar Heating and Cooling Programme, and she
is active in several European Union projects on energy research and on dissemination of research results.
At the same time she is a member of the European Commission's External Advisory Committee on Energy
(EAG Energie), as well as of various committees within the Research Council of Norway.
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