Nationality Norwegian Fields Nutrition Spouse Asbjorn Eide | Name Wenche Eide Institutions University of Oslo Institution University of Oslo | |
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Born Wenche Barth
3 January 1935 (age 89)
Oslo, Norway ( 1935-01-03 ) | ||
Wenche Barth Eide (born 3 January 1935 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian human rights scholar with base in Law and Social Science Research, daughter of civil engineer Jacob Bøckmann Barth (1898-1974) and Solveig Herstad (1900-1987), married October 10, 1959 to human rights scholar Asbjørn Eide (b. 1933), and the mother of former Norwegian Minister of Defence (2011–12) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (2012-13) Espen Barth Eide.
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Biography
Barth Eide holds a Master's Degree (Cand. real.) of Zoology (Zoo-physiology) at the University of Oslo 1962, and a Postgraduate Academic Diploma in Nutrition at the University of London (1965–66). She became a University Fellow, at the Institute for Nutrition Research (1963–66), then moved to the US with her husbond and became a Consultant to the UN System (UN Protein-Calorie Advisory Group, PAG) to lead an African-Norwegian team to prepare a first ever report of the UN on Women in Food Production, Food Handling and Nutrition, on leave from UiO 18 months, 1975-1976. She was a Consultant, of the Norwegian Research Council (at the time Council for Research on Societal Planning, RFSP), and had a two months leve in 1981 to draft a programme for research in economic, social and cultural rights, as developed by an expert committee. Then she became Technical Adviser in Nutrition, at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome (1989–94) on leave from UiO. Barth Eide was Associate Professor at the University of Oslo, Department of Nutrition (until 1997 under Nordic School of Nutrition), ending in 2005, but had temporary employment January–February 2011. Currently she is in an emeritus position (2013).
Barth Eide was leader of the Centre for International Development Studies (SIU) at the University of Oslo (1981–88), a member of Norad’s Research Committee and of Central Committee for Norwegian Research (Hovedkomiteen for Norsk Forskning), several years from around 1980. In the 1990s she became a member of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) (1995–98), and a member of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington D.C. (1996-2003). She has been in the Member Board of Trustees of the International Foundation for Science (IFS), since 2008.