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Gro Harlem Brundtland
(1939-)

Former Director-General of the World Health Organization
2001 World Ecology Award
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birthdate: April 20
birthplace:
Oslo, Norway

Gro Harlem Brundtland is a Norwegian politician, physician, and a global leader in public health and sustainable development. After working as a doctor in Norway's public health system, she was appointed as the Norwegian Minister for Environmental Affairs. In 1981, she became Norway's first female Prime Minister, and served 10 years over 3 separate terms.

Dr. Brundtland chaired the World Commission on Environment and Development (often called the Brundtland Commission) in 1983, which produced a report in 1987 that helped to bring international attention to the importance of sustainable development as a key to solving global environmental problems. (The report defined sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.") This led to the 1992 Earth Summit and the Agenda 21 action program that defines specific steps governments agreed to take to promote sustainable development.

In 1998, Dr. Brundtland was elected as Director-General of the World Health Organization. During her five years in this role, she addressed the importance of health and nutrition as cornerstones for sustainable development, as well as a key for reducing poverty and violence. The British Financial Times listed Dr. Brundtland as the 4th most influential European for the last 25 years. In 2007 the new UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon named Dr. Brundtland as a Special Envoy for Climate Change. That year, Gro Brundtland was also one of the founding members of a new global group called The Elders, that brings together some of the world's most influential social leaders to address the planet's most pressing issues.


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