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.