Curriculum Vitae - Blogg Regjeringen

Curriculum Vitae
Personalia
Name: Kate Hansen Bundt
Current position: Secretary General
Born: 1962
Civil status: Married, twins born in 1995
E-mail: bundt@dnak.org
Cell phone: +47 934 38 256
Core competence
 International relations and diplomacy; particularly European integration, German foreign
policy and transatlantic relations.
Work experience and positions
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From April 1st 2010 - present: Secretary General of the Norwegian Atlantic Committee
From 2006-2010: Independent political analyst and commentator in European Affairs
From 1993-2005: Director of research at the Oslo based think tank the “European Program”.
From 1992-1993 she was a research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
(NUPI) in Oslo.
Other professional activities
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From 2014 – 2018 she is appointed chairman of the board of the Norwegian Institute of
International Affairs (NUPI)
From 2014-2016 she is appointed vise-president of the Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA)
Since 2013 she has been member of the Council of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute
Since 2011 she has been member of the Council of the Norwegian Defence University College
From 2010-12 she was member of the EEA Review Committee appointed by the Norwegian
Government (Stoltenberg III) to undertake a thorough, research-based review of the EEA
Agreement and additional agreements between Norway and the European Union.
From 2007-09 she was member of the Norwegian Governments (Stoltenberg II) advisory
board on “Security policy, disarmament and international challenges to Norwegian security”.
Hansen Bundt gives lectures and briefings on European topics and security issues regularly in
different fora; such as the Defense Academy, different Ministries, NGO’s, business
organizations, journalist clubs and so forth.
She is frequently invited by the Norwegian media (television, radio and newspapers) as an
expert analyst and commentator on European, transatlantic and German Affairs
From 1992-1997 she was a teacher at the International Summer School, University of Oslo
(UiO).
Education
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In 2009 she graduated from the Norwegian Defence University College (NDUC), main course.
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Hansen Bundt has a final degree in Political Science (the Norwegian degree cand. polit.) from
the University of Oslo (1992). Her university study includes three disciplines: political science
(4 years), history (1 1/2 years) and a semester of intensive study of the Soviet and Eastern
European political and economic systems (1986).
In 1990 she received a scholarship from the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
(NUPI) in Oslo to conclude her final thesis in political science.
In 1987 she got a scholarship from the Norwegian MFA to study at the Humboldt University
in Berlin, GDR, in East German history and politics.
Writings and publications
 Hansen Bundt has published a number of articles during the years; written reports on behalf
of the Norwegian MFA and MOD, and contributed to several books, mainly in the Norwegian
language.
 Her writing covers various contemporary European issues, such as the Euro crises,
developments of the Common European Security and Defense Policy (CESDP), EU- and NATO
enlargements, geopolitics of Energy, German reunification and foreign policy, and Central
European politics and developments, as well as Norway’s relationship with the European
Union and Norwegian security policy.
 From 2005 - 2012 Hansen Bundt was a regular columnist in the weekly newspaper
Morgenbladet.