Agenda (think tank)

Agenda seminar in Oslo, January 2015. Foreign Minister Børge Brende speaks, while Agenda manager Marte Gerhardsen and former PM Gro Harlem Brundtland listen in.

Agenda is a think tank focused on both politics in Norway and international affairs, located in Oslo, Norway. Agenda started up activities in August 2014.[1] The think tank is headed by Marte Gerhardsen,[2] a former diplomat and director of DNB ASA and secretary general of Care Norway.[3] Chairman of the Board is the lawyer Geir Lippestad.[4][5]

Agenda's research focuses particularly on five topics: Labour economics, welfare, integration, climate change and energy, as well as foreign policy. Occacionally, it has also commented on party tactics aiming to establish a broader alliance at the left spectrum of Norwegian politics.[6] The think tank has a stated ideological orientation towards the center-left. It partly seeks a position in opposition to the liberal think tank Civita, which is funded by the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise.[7] Agenda is a non-partisan and non-profit entity funded jointly by the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO),[8] and by the Norwegian CEO and philanthropist Trond Mohn.[9]

On 12 December 2014, Agenda staged a public lecture by the French economist Thomas Piketty in Oslo,[10] being invited as the guest of Agenda.[11][12]

In conjunction with the visit of Mr. Piketty, Agenda published a short video on income inequality in Norway.

References

  1. ↑ Agenda er i gang - Tankesmien Agenda, June 11, 2014.
  2. ↑ Marte Gerhardsen blir Agenda-leder - Dagsavisen, DATE.
  3. ↑ Marte Gerhardsen generalsekretær i CARE - Nettavisen, January 10, 2008.
  4. ↑ Styret (Board of Directors) - Tankesmien Agenda
  5. ↑ Lippestad skal lede sosialdemokratisk tenketank - Aftenposten, December 4, 2013.
  6. ↑ Refser Ap for dårlig samarbeid med sentrum - Aftenposten, June 20, 2014.
  7. ↑ De rike får mer av kaka - Kaia Storvik (Agenda), in Dagsavisen, July 4, 2014.
  8. ↑ LO-lederen inn i Agenda-styret - Dagsavisen, December 9, 2013.
  9. ↑ 12 millioner til ny tenketank - Dagsavisen, November 5, 2013.
  10. ↑ Economist questions the "Nordic model" - Norway Post, DATE.
  11. ↑ Piketty advarer Norge - Klassekampen, December 13, 2014. Image of Piketty with Agenda manager Marte Gerhardsen.
  12. ↑ Veldig fornøyd vertinne - Dagens Næringsliv, December 12, 2014.

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