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Born in Oslo April 26th, 1949. Married, 2 children.Werner Christie is a former Minister of Health of Norway, and former chair of the Biotechnology Advisory Board of Norway. Werner is a Medical Doctor also educated in Social Science. He also has more than 13 years experience as a part-time farmer.
He has worked as a public health officer and hospital manager in Norway and has done research and published a textbook in the planning and management of health care. He has served on a number of boards for health care providers, investors and start-ups, including European Federation of Biotechnology and ScanBalt network of Biotech networks. He was for 5 years a special advisor in medical and Biotechnology for the Norwegian Trade Council, and served two years in that function in San Francisco. He chaired the development of WHO’s “Stop TB” initiative (www.stoptb.org) , a worldwide public – private partnership against tuberculosis, from its beginning until it included more than 40 global organizations. In 2001 he started his own fulltime consulting business, “World Health Connections”, focusing on entrepreneurship and investment strategies in Medical and Biotechnology and advising both private and public enterprises. He was appointed in May 2004 as Science and Technology Counselor for the Royal Norwegian Embassy, Beijing, where his work is mainly focused on energy, environmental, building, medical, marine and bio- science and technologies.
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