The Thorolf Rafto Challenge is an annual event hosted by NHH and the Rafto Foundation where business organizations are challenged to share information about human rights dilemmas they face in their value chains. This year's guest speaker is Gry Larsen, CEO of the Grieg Group.
The Grieg Group operates within Seafood, Shipping, Shipbroking, Maritime Innovation, Logistics and Investments in 8 countries worldwide. It is led by the fourth and fifth generation of the Grieg family, 140 years after the company's beginnings in Bergen in 1884.
The industries in which the Grieg Group operates have considerable human rights risk and the Grieg Group has shown a strong commitment to ensuring that such risks are identified and managed properly.
Gry Larsen is Managing Director of the Grieg Group and board member at the Grieg Foundation.
Larsen has several years of experience from Norwegian Politics, serving as both president of the Norwegian Labour Youth, State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Political Advisor to the Foreign Minister from 2005-2013. She has also been Secretary General at CARE Norway.
Rafto Challenge (18.10.2024)
The Thorolf Rafto Challenge is a lecture held in commemoration of the dedicated human rights defender and NHH professor Thorolf Rafto (1922-1986), with the aim of creating awareness around ethical challenges in business and the attempts to tackle them.
This lecture is an arena where internationally acclaimed human rights experts, businesses and key stakeholders are invited to share knowledge and experience from real and painful human rights challenges, in order to help educate future leaders.
The event is a participation with the Rafto Foundation
Previous speakers include Sigve Brekke (Telenor), Eldar Sætre (Equinor), Svein Tore Holsether (Yara) and Hilde M. Aasheim (Hydro).