Gudmund Hernes

Gudmund Hernes
Gudmund Hernes
Minister of Health and Social Affairs
	In office; 22 December 1995 – 17 October 1997
Prime Minister	Gro Harlem Brundtland ; Thorbjørn Jagland
Preceded by	Werner Christie
Succeeded by	Dagfinn Høybråten
Minister of Education and Research
	In office; 3 November 1990 – 22 December 1995
Prime Minister	Gro Harlem Brundtland
Preceded by	Einar Steensnæs
Succeeded by	Reidar Sandal
Personal details
Born	25 March 1941 (age 83); Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway
Political party	Labour
Spouse(s)	Helga Hernes (unknown period) ; Charlotte Haug (2008-)
Children	Stein Hernes

Gudmund Hernes (born 25 March 1941 in Trondheim) is a Norwegian professor and politician for the Labour Party. He was the state secretary to the Secretariat for Long-Term Planning 1980–1981, Minister of Education and Research and Ministry of Church and Cultural Affairs (church affairs) 1990, Minister of Education, Research and Church Affairs 1991-1995 and Minister of Health and Social Affairs (health affairs) 1995-1996 and 1996–1997.^[1]

Gudmund Hernes got his PhD in sociology at Johns Hopkins University in 1971. He became a professor at the University of Bergen in 1971, and later at the University of Oslo. He has been a Fellow at The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford (1974–75) and Visiting Professor at Harvard University in 1986 and 1990.^[2]

From 1999 to 2005 he was the Director of UNESCO's International Institute of Educational Planning in Paris, and UNESCO's Coordinator on HIV/AIDS.^[3]

He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.^[4] the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters[1], and The Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research [2]. Gudmund Hernes is researcher at the Fafo Institute in Oslo, and adjunct professor at BI Norwegian Business School.^[5] During 2006-2011 he was president of The International Social Science Council [3] From 2017 he has been the Chair of the University Board (Konsistorium) at Uppsala University. Hernes is an honorary doctor at Umeå University [4] and the University of Bergen. Among his other awards are an Honorary Member of the Norwegian Fulbright Association, The Honorary Price of the Norwegian Sociological Association and Honorary Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology. He has been a columnist in several Norwegian papers, and for the last thirteen years in the Norwegian Weekly Morgenbladet.

References

^ "Hernes, Gudmund ( 1941- )" (in Norwegian). Stortinget.no. Retrieved 8 January 2010.
^ "Fafo - Gudmund Hernes", Accessed December 6 2011 Archived 2012-04-15 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Fafo - Gudmund Hernes", Accessed December 6 2011 Archived 2012-04-15 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Gruppe 7: Samfunnsfag (herunder sosiologi, statsvitenskap og økonomi)" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2009.
^ Gudmund Hernes, BI Norwegian Business School, Accessed 29 August 2017

Political offices
Preceded by Einar Steensnæs	Norwegian Minister of Education and Research 1990–1995	Succeeded by Reidar Sandal
Preceded by Werner Christie	Norwegian Minister of Health 1995–1997	Succeeded by Dagfinn Høybråten