Vibeke Fürst Haugen (born 20 May 1968) is a Norwegian media executive. From 2022 she serves as

Director-General of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation The Director-General is chief executive officer, chief executive and editor-in-chief of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). The position is appointed by the NRK board, which in turn is appointed by the government. The title of the Directo ...

Career

Born in

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

on 20 May 1968, Fürst Haugen graduated as

cand.mag. Candidatus magisterii (male), or candidata magisterii (female), abbreviated as cand.mag., is an academic degree currently awarded in Denmark. The degree is officially translated into English as Master of Arts and currently requires 5 years of studi ...

from 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 ...

in 1994, and has later had further education from the Norwegian School of Economics and

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. Working for the broadcasting company

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 ...

from 1994, she eventually assumed various administrative positions. She was appointed

in 2022, succeeding

Thor Gjermund Eriksen Thor Gjermund Eriksen (born 2 October 1966) is a Norwegian journalist and editor who has been Director-General of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 2013 to 2022. Career Journalistic career Born in Oslo, he was hired as a journalist in ' ...

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1968 births Living people People from Oslo University of Oslo alumni Norwegian School of Economics alumni Harvard University alumni Norwegian chief executives NRK people {{Norway-bio-stub