Mr. Kjell Magne Bondevik served as the Prime Minister of Norway from 1997 through 2000 and again from 2001 through 2005. In 2005, Mr. Bondevik founded the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights and has served as the Center’s President since its inception. Mr. Bondevik was also appointed Special Humanitarian Envoy for the Horn of Africa by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2006.He is a Theological Candidate from Norway’s Free Faculty of Theology and in 1979 he was ordained as a priest in the Lutheran Church of Norway. Mr. Bondevik was a member of Stortinget (the Parliament) from 1973 – 2005 representing the Christian Democratic Party. He served as State Secretary of the Office of the Prime Minister from 1972-1973, Minister of Church and Education from 1983-1986 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1989-1990.