Biography of Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland
Special Envoy on Climate Change for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland was born in Oslo, Norway, on 20 April 1939.
A medical doctor and Master of Public Health (MPH), Gro Harlem Brundtland spent 10 years as a physician and scientist in the Norwegian public health system. For more than 20 years she was in public office, 10 of them as Prime Minister. In the 1980s she gained international recognition, championing the principle of sustainable development as the chair of the World Commission of Environment and Development (the Brundtland Commission).
Dr Brundtland's first choice of career was neither environmentalist nor politician, but to become a doctor like her father. He was a specialist in rehabilitation medicine, a skill much in demand following the Second World War. When Gro Harlem was 10 years old, the family moved to the United States where her father had been awarded a Rockefeller scholarship. The seeds of internationalism were sown in the young Gro.
Dr Brundtland inherited another passion from her father - political activism. At the age of seven, she was enrolled as a member of the Norwegian Labour Movement in its children's section and has been a member ever since, leading the Labour Party to election victory three times.
The sense of global awareness that began in her childhood developed when, as a young mother and newly qualified doctor, Gro Harlem Brundtland won a scholarship to the Harvard School of Public Health. Here, working alongside distinguished public health experts, Dr Brundtland's vision of health extending beyond the confines of the medical world into environment issues and human development began to take shape.
Returning to Oslo and the Ministry of Health in 1965, the next nine years were to be very hectic for Dr Brundtland. At the Ministry she worked on children's health issues including breastfeeding, cancer prevention and other diseases. She worked in the children's department of the National Hospital and Oslo City Hospital and became Director of Health Services for Oslo's schoolchildren. All this at the same time as bringing up her own family and representing Norway in international conferences.
Such energy, enthusiasm and commitment brought an unexpected change of career. In 1974, Dr Brundtland was offered the job of Minister of the Environment. At first, believing she did not have enough experience of environmental issues, she was reluctant to accept the post. But her conviction of the link between health and the environment changed her mind.
During the 1970s she acquired international recognition in environmental circles and a political reputation at home. In 1981, at the age of 41, she was appointed Prime Minister for the first time. Gro Harlem Brundtland was the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold the office of PrimeMinister in Norway. With two other periods as Prime Minister from 1986-1989 and 1990-1996, Dr Brundtland was Head of Government for more than 10 years.
Throughout her political career, Dr Brundtland has developed a growing concern for issues of global significance. In 1983 the then United Nations Secretary-General invited her to establish and chair the World Commission on Environment and Development. The Commission, which is best known for developing the broad political concept of sustainable development, published its report Our Common Future in April 1987.
The Commission's recommendations led to the Earth Summit - the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
Dr Brundtland finally stepped down as Prime Minister in October 1996. In her successful bid to become Director-General of the World Health Organization her many skills as doctor, politician, activist and manager have come together.
Dr Brundtland was nominated as Director-General of the World Health Organization by the Executive Board of WHO in January 1998. The World Health Assembly elected her for the position on 13 May 1998.
In her acceptance speech for the World Health Assembly, Dr Brundtland said: "What is our Key mission? I see WHO's role as being the moral voice and the technical leader in improving health of the people of the world. Ready and able to give advice on the key issues that can unleash development and alleviate suffering. I see our purpose to be combating disease and ill-health - promoting sustainable and equitable health systems in all countries".
Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland took office on 21 July the same year.

陆雄文复旦大学管理学院院长
博士生导师陆雄文教授现任复旦大学管理学院院长、复旦大学中国市场营销研究中心主任。陆教授的教学和研究主要集中于中国不成熟市场营销、因特网营销、服务营销和企业组织变革等，在国内外权威刊物和会议上发表五十余篇论文，并出版了4部著作及教材。
陆雄文教授还担任第四届全国工商管理硕士（MBA）专业学位教育指导委员会副主任委员、21世纪管理教育与学术联盟（ABEST21）副主席、亚太管理学院联合会（AAPBS）理事，并任香港大学经济及工商管理学院名誉教授、挪威管理学院名誉教授。他还是中华全国青年联合会十届委员。
陆教授毕业于复旦大学管理学院，获经济学博士学位，曾赴美国达特茅斯大学塔克商学院做博士后研究，并曾在美国麻省理工学院斯隆管理学院和俄亥俄州立大学费雪商学院担任访问学者。

Brief Curriculum Vitae
Torger Reve
Professor Chair in Strategy and Industrial Competitiveness
BI Norwegian School of Management
N-0442 Oslo
Norway

Professor Torger Reve currently holds the Wilh. Wilhelmsen Chair in Strategy and Industrial Competitiveness and heads the Center of Maritime Competitiveness at BI Norwegian School of Management
Dr. Torger Reve has been President at BI Norwegian School of Management, 1997-2005, which is the maximum tenure period according to the statutes of the school. He currently holds a Chaired Professorship in Strategy and Industrial Competitiveness.
BI Norwegian School of Management is a leading research based business university based in Oslo, offering Bachelor, Master and Doctoral degrees and Corporate and Executive programs at 15 different campuses in Norway, Lithuania and China, to a total of 20.000 students.
Before his presidential term at BI, Torger Reve was President at the Foundation for Research in Economics and Business Administration (SNF) 1995-1997, and Professor of Organization Science at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH), Bergen, Norway, 1984-1997.
Torger Reve has a Ph.D in marketing from Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA, 1980. He also holds two master degrees in business administration from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH), Bergen, Norway, 1972 and 1975, and a BA degree in liberal arts at Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota, USA, 1970.
He has been a visiting research scholar at Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, Palo Alto, CA., Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of Commerce, Tokyo, Fudan University, Shanghai, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Harvard Business School, Boston, MA and a visiting professor in marketing at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC. He has been lecturing at universities world wide.
His research has concentrated on marketing channels, interorganizational relations, business strategy and industrial competitiveness. In his research, he has worked closely with such international scholars as Louis W. Stern, James G. March, Oliver E. Williamson and Michael E. Porter.
Torger Reve has published research articles in such journals as the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Academy of Management Review, Human Relations, Scandinavian Journal of Management, Journal of Business Research and other journals.
His award winning article (with professor Louis W. Stern) on “The political economy on marketing channels”, Journal of Marketing (1980) has been published in Marketing Classics (1985). He has received several other research prizes and awards.
He has published 12 books covering such topics as industrial competitiveness, boards of directors, business strategy, strategic alliances, organization theory, project and international management. He has analyzed industries such as oil and gas, shipping, banking, telecommunication and retailing, and he has been a strategy consultant to top management in many corporations.
He has managed several large research projects financed by various industries, ministries, Norwegian Research Council and the European Union. He has chaired more than 20 doctoral dissertations, mainly in the area of interorganizational relations and transaction cost analysis.
He holds several editorial positions and is a frequent participant in academic evaluations and accreditation committees.
Torger Reve is a popular lecturer with students, business and government, concentrating on topics of industrial competitiveness, strategy and management. He writes columns in business newspapers and is active in the national and international media.
Torger Reve has held several public and private offices and board memberships, including the Norwegian Prime Minister’s Competitiveness Council, Chairman of the Board at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) and board memberships at Lærdal Medical AS, Mega Tankers AS, IT Fornebu AS, Abelia, Ekornes ASA and European Foundation of Management Development (EFMD), Brussels. He is also chairman of the Council of Strømme Foundation which is a Microfinance NGO working in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Torger Reve is a Norwegian citizen born in 1949, living in Oslo, Norway. He is married, has three children and four grandchildren.