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  Norway
 

DIRECTORATE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE

EHHF 2013 COOPERATION WITHIN THE CULTURAL HERITAGE SECTOR

Hanna Geiran (born 1969) is director general of the Directorate for Cultural Heritage in Norway (Riksantikvaren). She graduated from the Oslo School of Architecture in 1997 and started her professional life as an architect in different firms.

In 2005, Hanna Geiran joined the Directorate for Cultural Heritage, where she has held different responsibilities: head of the Section for the Protection and Development of Buildings and Green Areas (since 2013), head of the Department for Buildings, Monuments and Sites from 2014 on and director general since October 2018.  Until 2018 she was a member of the Norwegian delegation for ICCROM.

Ms Geiran is also head of the Norwegian delegation to the World Heritage Committee. The Directorate for Cultural Heritage promotes the conservation, use, enjoyment and development of cultural heritage. In addition to working to provide various forms of protection, Ms Geiran also wants to ensure that climate and environmental considerations are taken properly into account in the management and maintenance of cultural heritage. As an architect, she promotes re-use and transformation of buildings as a contribution towards achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement.

A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY
The first European Heritage Summit was organised in London from April 26 to 28, 2006 by Dr Simon Thurley, former Chief Executive of English Heritage. The mission of the summit was to bring together for the first time those responsible for Europe's cultural heritage, to create an opportunity to exchange experiences in heritage management and to initiate joint action. The first summit brought together 23 European countries, who agreed in the summit's final declaration to continue to meet annually in the form of a European Heritage Heads Forum. Each year, future host countries are chosen by mutual agreement at the annual meeting, so that the tradition can continue.

 

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