Hege Jacobsen, Chair of the Board
Hege Jacobsen works as a project manager for Norsk Hydro. Prior to this position she has worked in several UN agencies and been stationed in Geneva, Vienna and Western Sahara. She holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration and a Bachelor’s degree in Middle Eastern and North African studies from the University of Oslo. Hege has a broad experience in information technology, project management, quality systems and organizational work. She has served as a member of the Board since May 2007.

Farid Ghiami, Deputy Chair of the Board
Farid Ghiami is originally from Afghanistan and an educated journalist from the University of Mazar-e Sharif. He is currently studying Social Studies with HR Management at the University of Stavanger. He has previously worked, amongst other things, as a deputy manager at the Stavanger reception center for asylum seekers, as a general manager at the section for unaccompanied minors and as a coordinator at Dale reception center. Presently Farid Ghiami works as a supervisor for Smi Human AS. He has been a NAC member since 2006 and was elected to the Board in May 2010.

Marianne Heibo, Women’s Committee Representative
Marianne Heibo is employed by the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI) and has extensive experience in interviewing asylum-seekers, particularly minors. She is active in NAC’s Women’s Committee and travelled to Afghanistan in May 2010 to visit projects. Marianne Heibo has served on the NAC Board as the Women’s Committee- Representative  since 2010.

Marte Haugerud Moe, Project Committee Representative
Marte H. Moe works for the department of Foreign Education at NOKUT – the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education. She holds a Master’s degree in development studies from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) in Ås. Marte H. Moe was elected to the Board for the first time in 2010 and is a leader for NAC’s Project Committee.

Solveig Sandalsnes, Bergen Committee
Solveig Sandalsnes has been employed by Bergen municipality for more than 35 years, now for NAV. She has been a NAC member for approximately 20 years and been on the Board during several periods. Solveig visited the NAC`s projects in Afghanistan in 2004. She received Bergen municipality’s Equality Award in 2008.

Beate S.Lupton, Board member
Beate S. Lupton is a doctor and a specialist in community medicine. She has worked as a District and Municipal Doctor in Båtsfjord for many years and as an Assisting Chief County Doctor in Finmark. In 2010 Beate S. Lupton began working as a Municipal Chief Physician in Båtsfjord. She has also spent 10 years at the University in Tromsø. Beate S. Lupton has been a NAC member since July 2009 and was elected to the Board in May 2010.

Anne S. Hertzberg, Board member
Anne Hertzberg is a trained psychologist. She has worked with aid and project development within the health and social sectors since 1995, often focusing on services for disabled. She has spent shorter periods in East and Southern Africa and Eastern Asia. She spent two years in Eritrea, and has been in and out of Afghanistan since 2002, where she has worked mainly for the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan and in recent years for the Afghan Ministry of Health.

Deeva Biabani, Board member
Deeva came to Norway as a refugee from Afghanistan in March 1999. She is a trained nurse and is currently studying to be a midwife at the University of Tromsø. In April 2009 Deeva travelled, with NAC’s current Secretary General Linda Våge, on a field trip to Faizabad in Badakhshan, a province in North Eastern Afghanistan. She is also a part of the Nansen Peace Centre’s project ”Student Network for Refugees”.

Terje Skaufjord, Board member
Terje Skaufjord has majored in History at the University of Oslo, and he is currently working as a high school teacher. Terje worked as a coordinator for NAC in Peshawar in the late 1980’s. He was Chairman of the Board for three years during the 1990’s and has also been the editor of A-nytt for the majority of the last twelve years. He has good knowledge of Afghan conditions.