Prize committee
Frode Alfheim (Chair)
Frode Alfheim was elected president of Industri Energi, today IE&FLT, on the national congress in 2017. Before being elected president he served as vice president from 2010. Alfheim has worked within the Norwegian trade union confederation since the 1990s. He has been a political advisor in three different departments. His place of birth is Dønna in Nordland.
Tor-Arne Solbakken
Tor-Arne Solbakken has a background from the armed forces as a civilian employee and is trained as an agricultural mechanic. Solbakken was deputy head of the Norwegian Civil Servants' Association from 1998 to 2005. He was in the leadership of The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) from 2005 to 2017, from 2009 as deputy head.
Raymond Johansen
Raymond Johansen is general secretary of Norwegian People's Aid since 2024. He is originally a plumber and politician (Labour). In the past he has, among other things, been city council leader in Oslo from 2015 to 2023, state secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and party secretary in the Labor Party..
Atle Høie
Atle Høie is General Secretary of IndustriALL Global Union. He is previously International Secretary of Fellesforbundet, the Norwegian United Federation of Trade Unions.
Haldis Holst
Haldis Holst is Deputy General Secretary of Education International where she is responsible for EI’s work in the areas of human and trade union rights, equality, and solidarity programs. Haldis Holst has been vice president of the Norwegian Union of Education.
Håvard Lismoen
Håvard Lismoen is chief adviser in The Confederation of Vocational Unions (YS) with special responsibility for working life policy. He was for several years researcher at Fafo.
Liv Tørres
Liv Tørres is manager of the International department in The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO). Formerly she has been CEO at the Nobel Peace Center and Secretary General of the Norwegian People’s Aid, as well as Director at Pathfinder for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies NYU CIC for New York University. Tørres has worked in the research sector in the Institute for Labour and Social Research, Fafo, the University of Oslo and the Research Council of Norway. She also has a Ph.D. in political science on the trade union movement in South Africa. She has been an adviser to the trade unions and government bodies on issues of democratization and the organization’s role, and was in 2011 Political Adviser to the Minister of Labour.