Education
1983-93 ( 1998): Degree in Political Science,
University of Oslo
1991: Ciencias Políticas, Free University
of Barcelona
Professional experience
2002-: Head of Department for
International Politics, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)
(October 2004-June 2005: Senior consultant
(D2) for the UN in New York,
leading the work on “Report on Integrated Missions” in connection with the UN’s
reform process. Partial secondment from NUPI during the same period.)
(2003-2004: Member of the professional
resource group for the UN Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change (UN Reform
Panel)).
2000-2001: State Secretary, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. At the MFA, Eide was responsible for bilateral and
multilateral relations with Europe and North America, including NATO, the
European Union, EFTA, OSCE, the Council of Europe, the Balkans, Russia and Central Asia
in addition to security policy in general.
1996-2000: Head of NUPI’s UN programme.
Responsible for the Institute’s research on peace operations and collective
security. Eide focused in particular on international involvement in the
conflicts in the Balkans, peacekeeping operations and the role of the UN.
1993-1996: Researcher for NUPI’s UN
programme, focusing on peacekeeping operations in the Balkans, Nordic and
European security.
1991-1993: Project manager and acting
general secretary for the European Movement in the campaign preceding the
referendum on EU membership in 1994.
1988-89: Secretary for a Government
appointed commission with a mandate to produce proposals for new internationalisation
strategies for higher education in Norway.
1988: Political Secretary, Labour Party
City Parliament Group.
1985: Students’ representative, University of Oslo.
Other experience
2001- : Norwegian Labour Party
representative on the board of the Party of European Socialists (PES) which
brings together the Socialist and Social Democratic parties in Europe. Participant since 1993 in the “transatlantic
dialogue” between European Social Democrats and Democrats in the United States.
Member of the Norwegian Labour Party’s
International Committee and the International Forum of the Oslo Labour Party.
Eide is co-editor of the London-based
journal International Peacekeeping.
2000-2002: Board member of the Academic
Council on the United Nations System.
1996-2000: Member of the Lessons-learned
Advisory Board at the UN’s Department for Peacekeeping Operations.
Nominated “Global Leader of Tomorrow” by
the World Economic Forum in 2003. Participant in the World Economic Forum,
Davos/Geneva.
Permanent participant in various
international security policy forums including the Annual NATO Review, a
discussion forum intended to support NATO’s Secretary General which convenes
each autumn in Berlin
(Stiftung Wissenshaft und Politikk). He has also participated in several
projects together with the European Institute for Security Studies(EU ISS) in Paris.
Recipient of the Norwegian Petroleum
Society’s prize in 2005 for an analysis of Norway’s strategic perspectives in
the Northern Region.
