Berit Kvæven

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Berit Kvæven
Parliament of Norway
In office
1997–2001
28th President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights
In office
2004–2006
Preceded bySiri Hangeland
Succeeded byTorild Skard
Personal details
Born19 November 1942
NationalityNorwegian
Political party
Liberal Party
Professionchemist

Berit Kvæven (born 19 November 1942) is a Norwegian

Liberal Party. She has been Vice President of the Liberal Party, president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights (2004–2006), President of Tekna
and a deputy member of parliament.

Career

Kvæven earned a

UN monitoring program for acid rain
.

She served as personal secretary (i.e. political adviser) to the Minister of Government Administration and Consumer Affairs

during the term 1997–2001.

She was Vice President of the

Liberal Party from 1976 to 1982, President of the Oslo branch of the Liberal Party in 1990 and president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights from 2004 to 2006. She was President of Tekna
, the Norwegian association of engineers with around 50,000 members, from 1990 to 1993. She was also Vice President of the Confederation of Academic and Professional Unions in Norway, with around 200,000 members, from 1991 to 1993.

She has also been a member of several governmental committees and boards of directors in the fields of nuclear energy, pollution, agriculture and government reform.

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