Gunhild Stordalen
- January 10, 2024
- Physician
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Gunhild Stordalen Biography
| Name | Gunhild Stordalen |
| Birthday | Jan 15 |
| Birth Year | 1979 |
| Place Of Birth | Haugesund |
| Home Town | Rogaland |
| Birth Country | Norway |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
| Siblings | Marit Melhus |
| Spouse | Petter Stordalen |
Gunhild Stordalen is one of the most popular and richest Physician who was born on January 15, 1979 in Haugesund, Rogaland, Norway. Gunhild Anker Stordalen (nee Melhus born on 15th January, 1979) is a Norwegian doctor and environmentalist. She is the co-founder and president of the EAT Foundation, the co-founder and chair of the charitable Stordalen Foundation, the CEO of GreeNudge and sits as a board member of various non-profit and commercial organisations. She has participated in public debates on issues such as climate change and public health. She has also been focusing on changing the food system in the world.
The Stordalen Foundation, which she co-founded along with their husband Petter Stordalen back in 2011 is mainly focused on climate change. Stordalen has written numerous op-eds on the topic.
In 2013, Stordalen founded the EAT Initiative with the idea of transforming the global food system to ensure the growing population a healthy and nutritious diet within safe environmental limits. In 2014, together with the Stordalen Foundation and the Stockholm Resilience Center she hosted the first EAT Stockholm Food Forum, dealing with the connection between food, health and sustainability. The participants included Charles, Prince of Wales, who spoke via a link on the theme of ‘The global food system: A sustainable future’, former US President Bill Clinton, who gave the keynote speech, and Professor Hans Rosling. Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland and Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway took part in a discussion from a consumer perspective on food and health. Following this, the Wellcome Trust joined Stockholm Resilience Center and the Stordalen Foundation in launching the independent EAT Foundation in March 2016. This enabled the EAT Stockholm Food Forum to become an annual event. To broaden its reach and spread the message, EAT Foundation, for the first time, organized a food forum outside of Stockholm, namely in Jakarta, Indonesia in October 2017.
On 22 October 2014 Stordalen was diagnosed with systemic sclerosis and has since been undergoing treatment for the disease.
As the daughter of a physician as well as a civil engineer She was born in Haugesund and was raised in the small hamlet of Muggerud near Kongsberg. Based on an interview in Dagbladet in 2010, she was raised in a non-materialist and pacifist family and was heavily involved in environmental issues since a young time.
Gunhild Stordalen Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Physician |
| House | Living in own house. |
Gunhild Stordalen is one of the richest Physician from Norway. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gunhild Stordalen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
She completed her studies at Kongsberg high school at the age of 1998. She was accepted into the medical faculties of Oslo’s University of Oslo in 2000 and was accepted into Medical Research Program. She graduated with her MD (cand.med.) in 2007. In 2007 while at University she was involved in sexuality awareness information for young people (Medisinernes Seksualopplysning) as well as a panelist expert on the radio program of NRK Juntafil which has 250 000 listeners who answer young Norwegians often quite explicit sexual questions. Stordalen was also models during her time at University
In 2007, Stordalen was enrolled in her PhD programme within the Institute of Pathology Oslo University Hospital (Rikshospitalet) and in 2010, she presented her dissertation Research on bone morphology with the focus on healing of fractures in osteoporosis research in the field of orthopedics and pathology.
In 2012 Stordalen was named the youngest woman on Kapital’s annual list over the 100 most influential women of Norway. In 2014 WWF Sweden named Gunhild Stordalen as Environmental Hero of the Year and in 2016 she was recognized among the 150 most influential business communicators in Sweden. She is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Food Forum and was one of 29 leaders selected by United Nations Secretary-General ban Ki-moon in 2016 to provide inspiration and direction for the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement and its mission in eradicating malnutrition. In 2016, Gunhild Stordalen was also awarded with the Norwegian Fredrikkeprisen, the Norwegian Women’s Sanitation Association’s award.
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