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Inge Lønning

Conservative Party

 

2005-: President of the Lagting

1997- : Member of the Storting for Oslo

Date and place of birth

20 February 1938, Fana, Norway

Education and work experience

1985-1992:

Rector, University of Oslo

1977-1984: Dean of Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo

1971- :

Professor of systematic theology, University of Oslo

1971:

Dr. theol. degree, University of Oslo

1963:

Seminary for Practical Theology, University of Oslo

1962:

Cand. theol. degree, University of Oslo

1957: Undergraduate studies in Norwegian language and literature, University of Bergen

Storting Committees

2005-: Member of The Standing Committee on Health and Care Services and the Enlarged Foreign Affairs Committee

2001- 2005:

First Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Enlarged Foreign Affairs Committee

1997-2001:

Member of the Standing Committee on Education, Research and Church Affairs

Delegations

2006- : Head of Parliamentary Delegation to the Nordic Council
2003: President of the Nordic Council

2001-2005 :

Deputy Head of the Norwegian delegation for Relations with the European Parliament

Other Storting posts

2001-2005 :

Vice-president of the Storting

Party appointments

1998-2002 :

First Deputy Chairman, Conservative Party

Local politics

1971-1975: Member of the Oslo Municipal Council

1971-1979:

Member of the Oslo City Council for schools and education

Public appointments

1996-1997:

Chairman, second committee on health priorities

1990-1992:

Chairman, first Norwegian Council of Universities

1985-1987:

Chairman, committee on health priorities

1984-1988:

Member, Nordic Science Policy Council

1982-1984: Chairman, committee on care of the seriously ill and dying

1981-1985:

Chairman of the Board, Norwegian Research Council

Appointments in organizations

1997-: President of German-Norwegian Society

1993-1995:

Head of the European Movement in Norway

1987-1999:

President of the Norsemen's Federation

1982-1985:

Chairman of the Church of Norway Commission on Theology

Other appointments

1997- :

Chairman of the Committee for Health and Rehabilitation

1986-1998:

Chairman of the Board, Scandinavian University Press

1968-

Editor of Journal "Kirke og kultur"

Distinctions, etc.

1997:

Leo and Lisl Eitinger Prize for Religious Tolerance

1992:

Honorary doctorate, Åbo Academy, Finland

1992: Member of the Royal Society for Humanities, Lund, Sweden

1987:

German Federal Republic’s Order of Merit

1986:

Honorary doctorate, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, USA

1986: Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav
1985: Member of the Royal Society of Science, Trondheim

1984:

Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science, Oslo


Last updated 04.06.2004

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