Gunhild Anker Stordalen
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Gunhild Stordalen in 2009
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| Born |
January 15, 1979 Haugesund, Norway |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Other names | Gunhild Melhus |
| Occupation | Physician, advocate, debater |
| Known for | Founder and president of EAT Foundation, Co-founder of Stordalen Foundation and CEO of GreeNudge |
| Spouse(s) | Petter Stordalen |
Gunhild Anker Stordalen (born Gunhild Melhus, January 15, 1979) is a Norwegian physician, environmental advocate and public debater. She is the founder and president of EAT Foundation, the co-founder and chairman of the philanthropic Stordalen Foundation, the CEO of GreeNudge and serves on the board of several commercial and nonprofit organizations. She has been engaged in public debate on issues like climate change and public health and is a driving force in transforming the global food system.
The daughter of a doctor and a civil engineer, she was born in Haugesund and raised in the sparsely populated hamlet of Muggerud outside Kongsberg. According to an interview with Dagbladet in 2010 she grew up in an anti-materialistic and pacifist household and was involved with environmental issues from an early age.
Gunhild Stordalen graduated from Kongsberg secondary school in 1998. She enrolled at the medical faculty of the University of Oslo in 2000, and joined the medical research program. She received her M.D. (cand.med.) title in 2007. During her time at University she worked with sexual awareness information for youths (Medisinernes Seksualopplysning) as well as an expert panelist on NRKs radio program Juntafil, a show with 250 000 listeners that answers young Norwegians sometimes very explicit sexual questions. Stordalen also worked as a model during her time at University
In 2007 Gunhild Stordalen enrolled in the Ph.D-program at the Institute of Pathology Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet and in 2010 she defended her doctoral thesis Molecular studies on bone with focus on fracture healing in experimental osteoporosis in the field of pathology and orthopedics. (see bibliography).
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