Natural Disasters and Societal Safety

About the Authors

Hans J. Røsjorde

, now retired, was Deputy Minister in the Justice and Public

Security Ministry in Norway. He is Candidatus realium in marine biology from the

University of Oslo, and also has completed his officer training. From 1970 to 1987,

he was both high school teacher and regional manager of the Stord Home Guard

(HV). From 2001 to 2011, he was County Governor in Oslo and Akershus. Between

1981 and 1989 he was Deputy in the Hordaland political leadership. He became

Member of Parliament for Hordaland in 1989, a responsibility he held until 2011.

During his tenure as Member of Parliament, he had several responsible positions,

including Chair of the Parliament Administrative Board, President of Lagting, Chair

of the Defence Committee and Parliamentary Vice-President. From 2011 to 2013 he

was member of the Parliament's Commission on “

Scrutiny of the Intelligence and

Security Service”

. He also held several political responsibilities for the Progressive

Party (“Fremskrittspartiet”) in Norway.

Erik Thomassen

leads the Analysis Unit in the

Directorate for Civil Protection and

Emergency

(DSB). His division's main responsibility consists of establishing and

monitoring risk and vulnerability in Norway. In addition to the evaluation of risk at

the national scale, extensive work is done on the methodology and model

development for the analysis of vulnerability, especially related to Norway's critical

infrastructure and critical services and functions, and any other priorities set by the

Justice and Public Security Ministry. Erik Thomassen is also responsible for the

supervision of the societal safety and preparedness work in all the other ministries in

Norway. Erik Thomassen has worked for DSB since 2008. Before that, he worked

for the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, primarily in a leadership capacity

related to traffic safety and planning. Erik Thomassen is Candidatus philologiae

(1979) in history from the University of Bergen, and has taken additional education

in risk management at the University of Stavanger and the Norwegian University of

Science and Technology (NTNU).

erik.thomassen@dsb.no

Audun Rosland

is Manager of the Climate Division at the E

nvironment Agency

(Miljødirektoratet) since 2012. He was Acting Climate Negotiator for Norway at the

Climate Convention (UNFCCC) in 2010 and 2011. He has an MSc (1981) in

Nature

Management and Resource Economics

from the

Agricultural University of Norway

(now the Norwegian University of Life Sciences). Between 1981 and 1988, he

worked with environment and resource analyses in the research division of Statistics

Norway. Since 1988, he has worked at the

Norwegian Pollution Control Authority

(now part of the E

nvironment Agency

), as Project Manager, Section Head and finally