Bente Haukland Næss is the former chair of the Norwegian Consumer Council. She is the CEO of Rembra, an engineering

Engineering

Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

 consultancy firm.

She has been a member of the board of Norsk Forening for Kvalitet og Risikostyring and the Ideas Bank Foundation.

A cand.mag.

Cand.mag.

Candidatus magisterii , Candidata magisterii , i.e. Latin Candidate of Arts, abbreviated cand.mag., is an academic degree used in Denmark, and formerly in Norway and Iceland, roughly corresponding to an American Master of Arts and officially translated as such...

 by education, she has been a member of Nittedal

Nittedal

Nittedal is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Rotnes....

 municipal council for sixteen years, representing the Christian Democratic Party. She resides in Hagan

Hagan

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.