Ole Petter Ottersen

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Ole Petter Ottersen

Board Member

ABOUT Ole Petter Ottersen

Professor Ole Petter Ottersen was the University of Oslo’s elected President from 2009 – 2017 and served as the President of Karolinska Institutet in Sweden from 2017 -2023. Ole Petter Ottersen was Director of one of Norway’s Centres of Excellence (Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience) from 2002-2009 and chaired The Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health (2011-2014). He was Founding Chair (2016-2017) and Acting General Secretary (2023-2024) of the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities – a European university network headquartered in Brussels that aims to contribute to the EU research, health, and innovation agenda.

Ottersen is cofounder of One Europe for Global Health (OEGH). He is currently a Professor and Chair of the Sustainable Health Unit at the University of Oslo, a Visiting Professor at Charité (Berlin), Vice President of the Virchow Foundation, and co-chair of a new Lancet Commission on Global Governance for Health.