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Employee Election to Board of Directors – RESULTS AND REFLECTIONS LIN B. KARSTEN, CHAIRPERSON OF THE EMPLOYEE ELECTION COMMITTEE
NINA IVARSEN – VEFF list – Veritas Funksjonærforbund Nina Ivarsen is a behavioral economist and holds a Master in business and economics from University of Stavanger with a specialization in international management in addition to a number of courses from other universities, including the University of Denver USA and PhD program in Phycology from the University of Oslo. She is the Head of Global Employee Forum (GEF) in DNV GL, representing all 14.400 employees worldwide. She is the chairperson of VEFF, representing the “Norwegian model” – the mandatory tripartite collaboration in DNV GL. Board Member of EWC (European Works Council in DNV GL) and a CR Board Member (Corporate Responsibility Board), and DNV Council Member since 2013.
LIV AUNE HAGEN – Young Passion for Future
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CHALLENGES RELATED TO THE ELECTION As stated above the most challenging every year is to get the response rate as high as possible, to get the employees voting interested in the election, and to emphasise the important role the employee elected representatives have in the Board of Directors. In addition to this it is always challenging to follow up the nominated candidates and the way they run their campaigns and the tools/ channels they use to promote themselves. We are happy with the response rate this year that was higher than it has been over the last years. This year we also ended up with candidates from two lists being elected.
A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE ELECTED CANDIDATES:
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FACTS ABOUT THE ELECTION The employee election committee was this year lead by Lin Beate Karsten, in addition Camilla Wiik and Guttorm Andresen was members of the committee. The election period was from 11th of April until 21st of April. 1063 employees voted in the election, this gives a participation rate of 42,6%. This year’s election has been really exiting as we got more lists than ever for the Norwegian constituency. We received 4 lists in total. Last year we ran a survey on how to get higher engagement related to the election. The respondents stated that they wanted a more in depth presentation of the candidates. This resulted in the employee election committee encouraging the nominated candidates to make a video presentation and also to create an Yammer account.
Liv Aune Hagen works within Shipping Advisory at Høvik and has experience from Maritime Advisory Dubai. She works with performance management for the maritime sector, market and environmental studies and is currently developing the internet portal for small scale LNG, LNGi. She holds a master in Industrial Economics and Technology Management from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) with a focus on finance and economic management.
Congratulations to Nina and Liv!!
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