The University of Oslo is a public research university located in Oslo,Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universities in the world and as one of the leading universities of Northern Europe;the 2022 Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked it the 67th best university in the world and the third best in the Nordic countries. In 2023,both the QS World University Rankings and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings listed the university as the highest ranked Norwegian university,placing it 101st and 126th in the world respectively.
Per-Kristian Foss is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party and from 2014 to 2021 the Auditor General of Norway.
Eva Severine Lundegaard Kolstad was a Norwegian politician and government minister for the Liberal Party. A major figure in the history of liberal feminism and the development of state feminism in the Nordic countries,she pioneered gender equality policies in Norway and at the United Nations. She served as president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights (1956–1968),member and vice chairman of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (1969–1975),Minister of Government Administration and Consumer Affairs of Norway in Korvald's Cabinet (1972–1973),leader of the Liberal Party (1974–1976) and as Norwegian Gender Equality Ombudsman (1978–1988),the first gender equality ombudsman worldwide.
Borghild Tenden is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.
Berit Ås is a Norwegian politician,psychologist,and feminist,who is currently Professor Emerita of social psychology at the University of Oslo. She was the first leader of the Socialist Left Party (1975–1976),and served as a Member of the Parliament of Norway 1973–1977. She was also a deputy member of parliament from 1969–1973,and from 1977–1981. She is known internationally for articulating the master suppression techniques,and her research interests also include feminist economics and women's culture. She holds honorary doctorates at the University of Copenhagen,Saint Mary's University (Halifax),and Uppsala University,and received the Rachel Carson Prize and the Order of St. Olav in 1997.
Trine Skei Grande is a Norwegian politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party of Norway from 2010 to 2020. She also served as Minister of Education from January to March 2020,and as Minister of Culture and Gender Equality from 2018 to 2020. She was also a member of parliament for Oslo from 2001 to 2021.
Kjersti Graver was a Norwegian jurist.
Karin Maria Bruzelius is a Swedish-born Norwegian supreme court justice and former president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights. In 1989,she became the first woman to be appointed Permanent Secretary of a government ministry,heading the Ministry of Transport and Communications until 1997. She was appointed supreme court justice on the Supreme Court of Norway in 1997,retiring in 2011. She has previously also been a director-general in the Ministry of Justice and a corporate lawyer. She was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague from 2004 to 2010,and chaired the Petroleum Price Board from 1987 to 2004. She served as president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights from 1978 to 1984,and from 2018 to 2020. She has been affiliated with the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law at the University of Oslo Faculty of Law since 2011.
Torild Skard is a Norwegian psychologist,politician for the Socialist Left Party,a former Deputy Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a former Chairman of UNICEF.
Anne-Lise Seip is a Norwegian historian and former politician for the Socialist People's Party. A professor emerita at the University of Oslo,she specialized in social history and the history of the welfare state. She was married to the famous historian Jens Arup Seip.
Else Germeten,née Knutson was a Norwegian women's group executive and film censor and a member of the Labour Party.
Kjersti Alveberg was a Norwegian choreographer and dancer. Over the last 30 years of her career she created ballets for stage and television and won prestigious awards for her work.
The Faculty of Law of the University of Oslo is Norway's oldest law faculty,established in 1811 as one of the four original faculties of The Royal Frederick University. Alongside the law faculties in Copenhagen,Lund and Uppsala,it is one of Scandinavia's leading institutions of legal education and research. The faculty is the highest-ranked institution of legal education in Norway and is responsible for the professional law degree,one of the most competitive programmes at any Norwegian university.
Tove Stang Dahl was a Norwegian legal scholar,criminologist,Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law,University of Oslo from 1988 until her death,and a pioneer of "feminist jurisprudence".
Margunn Bjørnholt is a Norwegian sociologist and economist. She is a research professor at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS) and a professor of sociology at the University of Bergen. Her research has focused on financial institutions,management and working life and later on gender equality,migration and violence. She has also worked as a consultant,a civil servant,served as an expert to the European Commission and been president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights.
Kjersti Stenseng is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party currently serving as the party secretary since 2015. She also served as a deputy member of the Storting from Oppland from 2013 to 2017.
Kjersti Bale is a Norwegian philologist.
Kristin Skjørten is a Norwegian criminologist. She is a research professor at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS) and a professor II of the sociology of law at the University of Oslo Department of Public and International Law. Skjørten is an expert on violence and abuse in close relationships,child custody,the Convention on the Rights of the Child and children's rights.
May-Len Skilbrei is a Norwegian sociologist,criminologist and gender studies scholar. She is Professor of Criminology at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo Faculty of Law. She has previously been Managing Director of the Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies. She is editor-in-chief of the journal Sosiologi i dag. She has also been President of the Association for Gender Research in Norway,board member of the European Society of Criminology and board member of the University of Oslo Faculty of Law. She also headed the Research network on prostitution in the Nordic countries. She has been described by Aftenposten as one of Norway's leading experts on prostitution and human trafficking.
Aud Blegen Svindland was a Norwegian physician and women's rights activist. She is known for her involvement in developing an interdisciplinary approach to occupational health and her work on laws concerning reproduction. She was one of the leading figures in health legislation in Norway in the 1970s and 1980s.
