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Ole Henrik Augestad (Chair)
Chief medical officer in Sandefjord municipality, and medical officer at the Sexual Assault Centre in Vestfold
Ole Henrik Augestad, specialist in community medicine and occupational medicine. He has been chief medical officer in Sandefjord since 2003, and has prior experience from preventive occupational medicine, general practice and hospitals. He has also participated in ordinary municipal emergency primary health care services for many years. Augestad helped establish the Sexual Assault Centre in Vestfold in 2005, and has since then been medically responsible and forensic expert at the reception centre in a part-time position. From the outset, the sexual assault reception centre in Vestfold County has had a nursing-led model, where specially trained nurses have had the main responsibility for the reception, examination and follow-up of victims of sexual assault, and where the nurses have supervised doctors in the part of the study in which the doctors have participated. This has been based on international nursing models such as forensic nursing and SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner). The Sexual Assault Reception Centre has developed this model through several years of international activity and professional contact. Since 2011, Augestad has been elected as a county council representative for the Labour Party, first in Vestfold County council for two election periods, and in the last period in Vestfold og Telemark County council. He will not seek re-election in the fall 2023 county election.
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Ragnhild Helene Hennum
Professor and Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo
Ragnhild Hennum graduated cand. jur in 1991 at the University of Oslo, and received the degree dr. philos at the same institution in 1999. In the period 1992-2003 she was affiliated with the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law in various types of positions: researcher, doctoral research fellow, post.doc. PhD candidate and assistant professor. Since 2004, Hennum has been employed as an associate professor at the Department of Public and International Law, and as a professor since 2008 at the same institution. From 2009 to 2017, Hennum was Vice-Rector and Pro-Rector at the University of Oslo. In the period 2020-2024, she is Dean of the Faculty of Law. She chairs the Committee for Gender Balance and Diversity in Research (the KIF Committee) from 2022 to 2025. She has served on several public committees, including the previous rape committee (NOU 2008:4: Fra ord til handling).
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Ståle Luther
Police Inspector, Troms Police District
Ståle Luther has extensive experience from investigations, and was part of the first cohort of domestic violence coordinators who graduated from the Norwegian Police University College in 2002. He has had a number of leading tasks related to violence and sexual offences, interagency cooperation, and prevention among children and young people. Luther helped establish and lead the Barnehus in Tromsø from 2009 until 2017. After this, he returned to the police as head of the Prevention, Intelligence and Investigation Unit in Troms Police District. Luther was a member of the Child Violence Committee, which in 2017 published the report NOU (2017:12) Svikt og svik. In 2022, he received the Cooperation Award from the January Conference in Tromsø, for contributions to the interdisciplinary cooperation on serious violence and abuse in close relationships.
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Unni Sandøy
Chief Public Prosecutor, Higher Prosecuting Authority, Trøndelag Public Prosecutor's Office
Unni Sandøy studied law at the University of Bergen and graduated cand.jur in the spring of 1995. In the period 1995 to 2000 she was an associate lawyer and at times general manager of Codex Advokat AS, with a break in 1997/98 where she was a deputy judge in Fosen District Court. From 2000 to 2008 she was employed as a lawyer in Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS in Trondheim, with main responsibility for the firm’s municipal clients, particularly within child welfare. This responsibility led her to the Trøndelag County Board, where she chaired the board from 2008 to 2010. After a short stay in Trøndelag District Court in the spring of 2010, she was appointed public prosecutor at the Trøndelag public prosecutor’s office in May 2010 and took up this position in August 2010. In 2022, she was appointed Head of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Trøndelag. As a public prosecutor, she has extensive experience in prosecuting and prosecuting rape cases.
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Carolina Øverlien
Research Professor, Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS) and Professor of Social Work, Stockholm University
Carolina Øverlien has conducted research on domestic violence for many years, with a particular focus on children who experience domestic violence, as well as intimate partner violence. For the past couple of years, she has been project manager at NKVTS for a research study on sexual violence in young people’s close relationships, and a study at Stockholm University that deals with support for youth exposed to violence. She has published a large number of scientific articles, nationally and internationally, and has written several books. She was also one of the initiators of the European Conference on Domestic Violence (ECDV), a biennial conference that brings together practitioners, researchers and policymakers from all over Europe. Øverlien has been a member of the Swedish committees that prepared the reports En uppväxt fri från våld (2022:70) and Vanvård i social barnavård (2011: 61).
The Committee’s Reference Group
The Committee has appointed a reference group with members from user groups, voluntary organisations and people with minority and indigenous backgrounds.
The following persons have been appointed as members of the reference group:
– Khansa Ali, MiRA-Senteret
– Rannveig Kvifte Andresen, DIXI
– Aina Madelén Nordsletta Aslaksen, Sametingets ungdomspolitiske utvalg (SUPU)
– Eli Beenfeldt, Norske Kvinners Sanitetsforening
– Geir Borgen, Dinutvei.no
– Ane Fossum, Krisesentersekretariatet
– Sebastian Haas, Skeiv Verden
– Lilja Skljarova Hansen, Finnmark politidistrikt
– Ina Hauk, Foreningen for kjønns- og seksualitetsmangfold (FRI)
– Thea Austgulen, Juridisk rådgivning for kvinner (JURK)
– Patricia Kaatee, Amnesty International Norge
– Linda Noor, Minotenk
– Lene Sivertsen, Smiso Troms
– Mali Storbækken, Reform – ressurssenter for menn
– Ingrid Thunem, Unge Funksjonshemmede
– Ingvild Hestad Torkelsen, Nok. Norge
– Thea-Caroline Zwahlen, Seksualpolitisk Nettverk for Ungdom (SNU)