Frederic Hauge

Frederic Hauge
President, The Bellona Foundation
In 1986, at the age of 20, Norwegian Frederic Hauge established the Bellona Foundation. Through investigation, documentation, legal action and non violent activism, Bellona has dramatically impacted the way Norwegians think of and relate to environmental matters. More importantly, the Foundation has facilitated concrete changes in environmental policies among political and industrial leaders in Norway and internationally. Today, Bellona is as international scientific and technology-based environmental NGO with 70 employees is Norway, Russia, the EU and the USA. In 2007 Hauge was elected Vice Chairman of the European Commission’s Technology Platform for Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants (ZEP), and the same year TIME Magazine named him a Hero of the Environment.