the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research University of Oslo
Who did Helga Hernes work for from 1993 to 1996?
Helga Hernes Helga Marie Hernes ( born 16 January 1938 ) is a German-born Norwegian political scientist , diplomat , and politician for the Labour Party . Educated in the United States , she moved to Norway following her marriage to Norwegian sociologist and politician Gudmund Hernes whom she met during her studies . She held a range of academic positions until 1988 and is well known for her concept of state feminism , articulated in 1987 . In 1988 she joined Gro Harlem Brundtlands government as State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . After leaving the government in 1993 she was Director of the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research , and served as Norways ambassador to Austria , Slovakia , Switzerland and the Holy See . In 2005 she joined the Peace Research Institute Oslo . Her more recent work explores gender and armed conflict . Early life and education . She was born as Helga Marie Jahncke in Germany ( todays Poland ) , and migrated to Bavaria in 1945 as a refugee . She was an exchange high school student to the United States in 1956 , and later took her higher education in that country . A bachelors degree from the Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley , Massachusetts in 1961 was followed by a masters degree at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , Maryland in 1967 . Academic , political and diplomatic career . In 1970 she took her PhD at the Johns Hopkins University , on the thesis The Concept of Community in Modern Theories of International Law . She was hired at the University of Bergen in the same year , and became senior lecturer in comparative politics in 1974 . She left Bergen in 1980 to work as research director in the Research Council of Norway , and in 1983 she was hired as a research director at the Norwegian Institute for Social Research . Among her important publications from this time were Staten - kvinner ingen adgang ? ( 1982 ) and Welfare State and Woman Power . Essays in state feminism ( 1987 ) , both pertaining to womens studies . These books were a part of the series Kvinners levekår og livsløp , of which Hernes was the editor , counting seventeen publications in total . Hernes remained at the Institute for Social Research until 1988 , when she was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a part of the second cabinet Brundtland . When the second cabinet Brundtland fell in 1989 , Hernes returned to her position at the Institute for Social Research . However , in 1990 a third cabinet Brundtland assumed office , and Hernes again became State Secretary . Hernes left the cabinet in 1993 . She was appointed director of the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research ( CICERO ) , and was also a professor of political science at the University of Oslo . In 1996 she left CICERO to work as an advisor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . In 1998 Hernes left both positions to become Norways ambassador to Austria and Slovakia . She was then Norways ambassador to Switzerland and the Holy See from 2002 to 2004 . In 2004 she returned to her research career to work for Norwegian Social Research . After one year she was hired as an advisor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo ( PRIO ) , where she works today on issues related to gender and conflict . From 1 July 2006 she combined this job with the position as chair of the Norwegian Parliamentary Intelligence Oversight Committee ) , a board for supervision of the Norwegian Police Security Service , the Norwegian Defence Security Staff and the Norwegian Intelligence Service . She left the Parliamentary Intelligence Oversight Committee in 2011 . Recent publications include De nye krigene i et kjønnsperspektiv [ The new wars in a gender perspective ] , part of the volume Kjønn , krig , konflikt [ Gender , war and conflict ] , edited by Hege Skjeie , Inger Skjelsbæk and Torunn L . Tryggestad ( Oslo : Pax , 2008 ) . She also edited the volume Women and War : Power and Protection in the 21st Century with Chantal de Jonge Oudraat and Kathleen Kuehnast ( Washington , DC : United States Institute of Peace Press , 2011 ) . Honours . She holds honorary doctorates from the University of Tromsø ( since 1993 ) and the University of Stockholm ( since 2002 ) . In 1999 she was decorated as a Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit , and she was promoted to Commander of the order in 2002 . In 2018 she became an honorary member of the Norwegian Association for Womens Rights ; the last person to be so honoured was Gro Harlem Brundtland . Personal life . Helga Hernes has been married to Gudmund Hernes , a sociologist and former politician . Their son Stein Hernes has been an advisor for Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg .