Program Committee

The concept and programme for the SDG Conference 2026 is currently being developed by the members of the Program Committee:

Oslo Metropolitan University

Aina Landsverk Hagen
committee lead
Research Professor
Work Research Institute AFI

Victoria Skogsletten Dalen
student representative
President of the Student Parliament OsloMet

NMBU

Elin Børrud
Professor Department of Urban and Regional Planning, head of SITRAP Center for integrated and transdisciplinary teaching in planning
Marthe Sponberg
student representative 

NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Stig Andre Larssæther, Senior Advisor Research, Innovation and External Relations Division
Lea-Sofie Thomasen Lie, student representative, President Student Parliament

University of Bergen (UiB)

Katja Enberg, Professor, Deputy Head, Department of Biological Sciences
Maria Økland,
student representative 

University of Oslo (UiO)

Elin Sæther, Associate Professor, Institute for Teacher Education

UiT – The Arctic University of Norway

Filip Maric,
Associate Professor Physioteraphy
Erling Petter Hæsken Trones,
student representative

UHR – Universities Norway

Robert Didham, Associate Professor University of Inland Norway

Norad 

Gerd Hanne Fosen, Policy Director Section for Education and Research

The National Union of Students in Norway (NSO)

Oscar Dos Santos Hellberg-Kvalsvik, international responsibility NSO

(former member Maiken Køien Andersen)

Advisor for Day 2 of the conference

Astrid Skjerven, professor emerita Culture and Sustainability, Oslo Metropolitan University

The Program Committee for the annual SDG Conference is appointed by the National Committee for Sustainability on Higher Education.