Gro Hillestad Thune is a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Labour Party

Norwegian Labour Party

The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....

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Born in Oslo, she served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Akershus

Akershus

- Geography :The county is conventionally divided into the traditional districts Follo and Romerike, which fill the vast part of the county, as well as the small exclave west of Oslo that consists of Asker and Bærum...

 during the term 1977–1981.

She chaired the Norwegian Consumer Council from 1977 to 1984. She was a member of the board of NAVF from 1980 to 1982 and the National Institute for Consumer Research

National Institute for Consumer Research

The National Institute for Consumer Research is a consumer affairs research institute based in Oslo, Norway. It has researchers in both social and natural sciences....

 from 1980 to 1984, and chaired the board of Radiumhospitalet

Radiumhospitalet

The Norwegian Radium Hospital is a hospital in Oslo, Norway dedicated to cancer treatment. It is the largest cancer centre in Northern Europe, with 400 beds and around 2,000 employees. It was founded in 1932, with Severin Andreas Heyerdahl as chief physician and director, and Hans L. C...

 from 1980 to 1985.

A lawyer by profession, she was a member of the European Commission of Human Rights

European Commission of Human Rights

European Commission of Human Rights was a special tribunal.From 1954 to the entry into force of Protocol 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights, individuals did not have direct access to the European Court of Human Rights; they had to apply to the Commission, which if it found the case to be...

from 1982 to 1998.