Marianne Hagen has been State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since November 2017. She has previously worked as Head of Communications at the Royal Court and as Adviser for the CEO of the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association. She has board membership experience from four sectors: culture, health, energy and finance. She has also been Deputy Chair of DNB Savings Bank Foundation and Chair of the Board of Dextra Musica.
Marga Kroodsma (Amsterdam, NL) has been working as an independent in the performing arts industry since 2004. For 6 years she was a programmer and artistic director of Jonge Harten(Young Hearts) Theaterfestival, a festival for young theatre makers/performers and a young audience. From this 9 day festival she moved to the 100 Day House of Veem House for Performance in Amsterdam. Veem House has been a leading international production house for innovative performance art for three decades. In 2017 Veem House decided to transform into the‘100 Day House’. For 100 consecutive days each year the Veem House is welcoming artists to work and present, and spectators to meet and discuss. Marga is temporarily replacing artistic director Anne Breure during her absence.
Jarle Bastesen is an associate professor at Kristiania University College.He teaches in subjects as management and leadership, organization theory, strategy, entrepreneurship, growth and change. His research areas are mainly organizational development and growth. At the moment he holds the position as chairman of the board at the jazz festival Nattjazz.
Christophe Meierhans started out as a composer but works in a wide variety of media. He has previously appeared at BIT Teatergarasjen with productions like Some use for your broken clay pots(2014), in which he presented a new form of democratic regime, and Verein zur Aufhebung des Notwendigen – A hundred wars to world peace(2015) – an exercise in anarchy through cooking. Christophe experiments with participation and the politicisation of ostensibly ordinary acts. He visited BIT Teatergarasjen in september this year with Trials of Money(2018), a special tribunal for semi-human persons.
Inger Lise Teig is associate professor at the Department of global public health and primary care, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bergen. She holds a PhD in social anthropology with expertise in health management, organisational ethnography, mental health studies, critical management studies, and health services research. She is in charge of and teaches at the continuing education course and master for health care personnel(Leadership in health care) at the University of Bergen. In 2017, she was awarded as"best educator" at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bergen.
Hallgeir Isdahl is a recently retired banking executive, now executive chairman in the fast growing music management MADE. Through his banking career he has served as market analyst, Chief economist and investment strategist, the last ten years as an executive with responsibilities in the areas of capital markets, retail banking an corporate social responsibilities. He has held and is holding a variety of chairs and board memberships within the financaial sector as well as in the creative and cultural sector. His major non professional interests are closely linked to music and contemporary art.
