Styret
Mette Husemoen, Ph.D. Dr. Husemoen is founding partner of NEX, co-founder of the Society for Organizational Learning in China – SoL China. Mette holds a PhD in Management, MSc in Physics, and Diplôme d’Ingénieur from IFP in Paris. Her educational background includes studies at Harvard and MIT and postdoc research in collaboration with Tsinghua and Peking University. Mette has had the unique opportunity to study with late teacher Nan Huaijin, one of China’s most acknowledged teachers of classic Chinese culture, and founder of the Taihu Great Learning Center outside Shanghai. Mette has lived and worked in Beijing for several years working closely with the Norwegian and Chinese communities. She is the founder of the Norwegian Society Club in Beijing (Klubb Norge).
Co-founder of the Norwegian Chinese Friendship Association . Medical doctor by training with postgraduate degrees in public health (MPH) and clinical investigational research (PhD) with specialization in Visions Sciences. He has lived and worked in Asia for some three decades of which the last decades in Beijing (until 2016). In China he has worked broadly in the fields of public health and clinical research, and as university lecturer and has been actively involved in the promotion of academic and cultural exchanges between our two countries. He has over the years also been working to promote business opportunities for Norwegian SMEs in China particularly within the Medical & Health Information Technology Sectors.
Partner in Nova – a Law Firm in Oslo that specializes in tax law. Bryne has for many years been recognized in several leading rankings, including Legal 500. He is an experienced speaker and facilitator. He was a member of the European Unions’s Value Added Tax (VAT) Committee. Eivind has been active and instrumental in the development and promotion of business relations between China and Norway for almost two decades. He was co-founder (2007) and Chairman of the Board and subsequent Board Member of the Norwegian Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Norway. He has more recently been serving as chairman of the board of Hurdal Ecovillage, a unique and pioneering project in sustainable living in Norway.
Sonja vokste opp i Norge i en kinesisk talende familie. Hun er utdannet siviløkonom fra Handelshøyskolen BI Oslo i 2019. Fra 2016-2017 bodde hun ett år i Shanghai mens hun fulgte studier ved Fudan University. Sonja har jobbet som praktikant i det multinasjonale selskapet COWI (rådgivende ingeniørfirma) i Oslo, Her jobbet hun med plan for areal- og bærekraftig transport og byplanlegging, og markedsundersøkelser knyttet til bilfritt sentrum. Arbeidserfaringen hennes inkluderer også arbeid i Pareto Bank i Oslo innen finans, sikkerhetsstillelse og låneadministrasjon. For tiden jobber hun i eiendomsbransjen i Nordic Group Holding AS som kontorsjef med ansvar for Oslo-avdelingen.
Pamela was born in Wales in 1958 and is the Director of the Norwegian Taiji Centre which was founded in 1983. For over 40 years she has worked extensively through her engagement in the Chinese Arts and Dao Philosophy with a broad section of Norwegian Society. She has been conducting regular teaching of Taijiquan classes and training teachers to teach. She has for many years been developing close associations with Daoist and Taijiquan Masters, Academics, and Institutions in China and for over 15 years organising annual field trips with her student delegates to China hosted by the Beijing Chapter of China People’s Association of Friendship with Foreign Countries. Through this work she has been an important «ambassador» for Norway for the promotion of people to people understanding.
Ellen Zhang is a cofounder of the Norwegian Chinese Friendship Association. She holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Norwegian Business School (BI). As a founder and Chairman of Noract AS she became pionneer and business leader for development of guided tourism in Norway mostly focused on the Asian and mainland Chinese market . In 2022 she succesfully completed advanced courses in IT management and became a Senior Associate for Microsoft Norway. Since 2024 she has returned to developing niche markets for Asian tourists in Norway. Ellen has through her work in Noract developed a very extensive network from both local and national governments and diverse business sectors and through this has created numerous win-win opportunities based on mutual visits and exchanges
Rådgivere
Kan Cao er grunnlegger og styreleder i Nordic Group Holding AS (NGH) og dets 30 datterselskaper. Han har opparbeidet høy kompetanse gjennom 30 års erfaring i norsk eiendomssektor. I 2020 ble NGH anerkjent av Estate Magazin som det 18. største eiendomsselskapet i Norge. Han ble tildelt en plass blant "Top 10 European Chinese Science and Technology Leading Talents" i 2018 av Federation of Chinese Professional Associations in Europe, Utover mange prestasjoner, er han også grunnlegger og styreleder for det kinesiske handelskammeret i Norge. Han har doble mastergrader i fysikk og ingeniørfag fra Universitetet i Bergen i Norge, og har vært ekstern veileder for bachelor- og mastergradsstudenter. Som en livslang lærende inkluderer hans interessefelt også innen juss, økonomi og finans.
Haakon is a retired Norwegian diplomat. He was in charge of the China desk at the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs during the 1990s. From 1999 to 2004 he served as the Norwegian Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China and subsequently Norwegian Ambassador to Finland. From 2007 to 2010 he led the Norwegian Government Delegation negotiating on behalf of Norway a bilateral free trade agreement between China and Norway (first round). In 2007 he also gave support to the founding of the Norwegian Chinese Chamber of Commerce (NCCC) and has been actively involved helping to promote business relations through their endevours. Haakon has since his retirement continued to be actively involved to promote good relations between Norway and China and has supported a numerous initiatives in this regard.
Willy has for some four decades worked actively building relations between Norway and China. As an environmental enginneer he has been a pioneer working with Chinese Colleagues facilitating technology transfer from Europe to China within the public and private environmental engineering sector. In 2000 he led the international tender team on behalf of Anglia Water and Mitsubishi that won the Beijing No 10 -the biggest water supply project in China at that time. Willy was co-founder of the first Business Forum in China in 1999 and was an active member of the board of directors. From 2016 to 2019 he served as Vice Chairman & Beijing Representative of what now is the Norwegian Business Association (NBA). Currently Willy works closely with Chinese local governments and business sectors for the development of sustainable waste to (bio ) gas production models with a special focus on biomass from agriculture annd animal husbandry.