Anne Hege Grung (born 4 November 1965) is a Norwegian professor of interreligious studies and feminist, and the President of Norway's preeminent women's and girls' rights NGO, the

Norwegian Association for Women's Rights The Norwegian Association for Women's Rights ( no, italic=no, Norsk Kvinnesaksforening; NKF) is Norway's oldest and preeminent women's and girls' rights organization and works "to promote gender equality and all women's and girls' human rights thr ...

(NKF); she succeeded supreme court justice

Karin M. Bruzelius Karin Maria Bruzelius (born 19 February 1941) is a Swedish-born Norwegian supreme court justice and former president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights. In 1989, she became the first woman to be appointed Permanent Secretary of a gove ...

as NKF President in 2020.

Academic career

Grung is (full) professor of interreligious studies at the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

and is known for her research on

interfaith Interfaith dialogue refers to cooperative, constructive, and positive interaction between people of different religious traditions (i.e. "faiths") and/or spiritual or humanistic beliefs, at both the individual and institutional levels. It is ...

and

human rights Human rights are Morality, moral principles or Social norm, normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for ce ...

dialogue, especially Christian–Muslim dialogue; her work focuses especially on the status of women in religious communities, including

violence against women Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), are violent acts primarily or exclusively committed against women or girls, usually by men or boys. Such violence is often consi ...

.Prest overtar ledervervet i Norsk Kvinnesaksforening
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NRK NRK, an abbreviation of the Norwegian ''Norsk Rikskringkasting Aksjeselskap, AS'', generally expressed in English as the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and ...

Grung is a member of the theological committees of the

Church of Norway The Church of Norway ( nb, Den norske kirke, nn, Den norske kyrkja, se, Norgga girku, sma, Nöörjen gærhkoe) is an evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway. The church b ...

and the

Church of Sweden The Church of Sweden ( sv, Svenska kyrkan) is an Evangelical Lutheran national church in Sweden. A former state church, headquartered in Uppsala, with around 5.6 million members at year end 2021, it is the largest Christian denomination in Sw ...

. She was awarded the prize "theologian of the year" by Norsk kvinnelig teologforening in 2002 and the prize Brobyggerprisen in 2003.

President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights

Grung was elected as the 33rd President of the

(NKF) in 2020, in succession to supreme court justice

References

Norwegian theologians Academic staff of the University of Oslo Norwegian Association for Women's Rights people Norwegian women's rights activists Christian feminist theologians 1965 births Living people {{Norway-reli-bio-stub