Norway

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 4 November 1946

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

Head of State: His Majesty King Harald V
Prime Minister: H.E. Mr Jens STOLTENBERG

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

H. E. Mr Harald Neple
Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Norway to OECD, Permanent Delegate (9/27/2006)

Permanent Delegation of the Kingdom of Norway to UNESCO
Maison de l'UNESCO 1 rue Miollis 75732 Paris Cedex 15
Telephone: 01 45 68 34 35
01 45 68 34 31
Fax: 01 45 67 92 03
E-mail: dl.norway@unesco-delegations.org

National Commission for UNESCO

President: Mrs Vigdis Lian
Secretary-General: Mr Stig Helge Pedersen

Norwegian National Commission for UNESCO
Ministry of Education and Research Postboks 8119 Dep No-0032 OSLO NORWAY
Telephone: (47) 22 24 70 55; (47) 22 24 79 13; (47) 22 24 76 76
Fax: (47) 22 24 79 20
E-mail: natcom@unesco.no; vigdis.lian@gmail.com (Pt); shp@kd.dep.no (SG)
Web site: http://www.unesco.no

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Member	Mr Alf Sommerfelt	1946-1952	1-31
Member	Mr Gunnar Garbo	1974-1978	96-105
Member	Ms Ingrid Eide	1989-1993	133-142
Representative		2005-2009	172-181

Note: The 1991 amendment modified Article V of the Constitution, with respect to the status of members of the Board, which with effect from the 27th session of the General Conference (1993) consists of Member States rather than of persons (26 C/Resolution 19.3).

Participation in subsidiary organs

Subsidiary organs of the General Conference


• International Coordinating Council of the Programme on Man and the Biosphere
  Member (Term expires : 37th General Conference)


• Intergovernmental Council of the "Management of Social Transformations" Programme
  Member (Term expires : 37th General Conference)

Other intergovernmental organs


• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
  Member

UNESCO institutes and centres


• Council of the UNESCO International Bureau of Education
  Member (Term expires : 37th General Conference)


• Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning
  Elected Member : Mr Birger Fredriksen (Term expires : December 2013)


• Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics
  Statistical expert : Mr Johan-Kristian Tønder (Term expires : 31 December 2011)

Celebration of anniversaries

200th anniversary of the birth of Niels Henrik Abel (2002)

150th anniversary of the birth of Fridtjof Nansen, explorer, and the 100th anniversary of the reaching of the South Pole by Roald Amundsen, explorer (2011)