Tonje Merete Viken
Tonje M. Viken (1971) is an experienced writer and researcher with a varied background from Norwegian organizations, academia and media as well as the UN. She has worked on a broad range of issues comprising of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and Norwegian development policies, humanitarian work, democracy and electoral systems.
Viken has previously worked with advocacy, communications, research and journalism. She also has international experience, working with the UN in Afghanistan and Yemen.
Viken is an election observer and has co-authored a Norden Special Report on Ethnic Minorities in Parliaments at the Norwegian Centre of Human Rights. She has conducted field work in the Balkans and the Middle East and is a published author on the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
She has previously worked as an adviser for the Centre Party in the Norwegian Parliament, with a focus on communications, shadow writing and publications as well as providing strategic communications advise to selected candidates for the parliamentary elections.
Viken holds two masters in English and Middle Eastern studies respectively, both from the University of Oslo. She is currently studying management, rhetoric and communications at the Norwegian Business School.