Kristin Halvorsen is director of Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo. Halvorsen is also Acting Chairman of the Board for the Norwegian Research Council. She is former head of Bioteknologirådet and former chairman of the board for the Natural History Museum. She is a former politician and was a member of the Stoltenberg II government from 2005 to 2013. From 2005 to 2009 she was Norway’s first female Minister of Finance and from 2009 to 2013 she was Minister of Education and Research. From 2005 to 2012 she was number two in the government and deputy prime minister.