Professor Ole Petter Ottersen is a neuroscientist with a strong engagement in Global Health and health equity. He was the University of Oslo’s elected President 2017 – 2023 and served as the President of Karolinska Institutet in Sweden 2017 -2023. Ole Petter Ottersen was Director of one of Norway’s Centres of Excellence (Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience, 2002-2009). He is currently Professor at University of Oslo, Visiting Professor at Charité, and Acting Secretary-General of The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities – a European university network that aims to provide its members with a strong voice in the further development of the EU’s Framework Programme and that has the development of EU-Africa clusters of research excellence as one of its top priorities. Ottersen chaired the Lancet Commission that studied the political determinants of global health inequities (The Lancet—University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health 2014). He is cofounder of One Europe for Global Health (OEGH) and Vice President of Virchow Foundation, board member of the African Population and Health Research Center, and member of the One Sustainable Health Forum Scientific Committee.
