Trond Waage
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Senior Fellow, UNICEF International Research Centre
Trond Waage is a child rights expert at the UNICEF IRC in Florence, Italy. Previously, he was for eight years the Ombudsman for Children in Norway. In this role he initiated the European Network of Ombudspersons for Children (ENOC) and was involved in setting up ombudsoffices for children in Europe and Africa. Norway was the first country establishing an Ombudsman for Children in 1981.
His previous positions has been (1) Senior Advisor for the Ministry of Children and Family Affairs in Norway. (2) Director of Research at Childwatch International Research Network which is a global nongovernmental network of institutions that collaborate in child research for the purpose of improving children’s well-being around the world. (3) Senior Programme Officer at The International Council for Distance Education (ICDE), where he had the responsibility to undertake and organise multi-channel learning projects in developing countries in co-operation with UN agencies, bilateral agencies and national authorities. (4) Director of the TV Department at the University of Oslo, Department of Special Education.
Trond Waage is a board member for several organisations and he was also the first leader of the Norwegian Trade Council for Pharmacies, with the aim of monitoring the practice and quality of pharmacy services according to the Standards for Pharmacy Practice. Trond Waage is an educationalist from the University of Oslo.
