Gro Harlem Brundtland started out as a doctor. Climbing the ranks, she became Norway’s first female Prime Minister. Now, new show “Power Play” takes a closer look at her way to the top.

In Brundtland's family, politics was seen as important: her father, who was a doctor, twice served as a government Minister. At the age of seven, she was enrolled as a member of the Norwegian ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. Gro Harlem Brundtland says inequality and climate change need urgent attention worldwide. The former Prime Minister of Norway spoke in Minneapolis at ...

Gro Harlem Brundtland, the former prime minister of Norway and director-general of the World Health Organization, will be the featured speaker at Augustana University’s Boe Forum on Public ...

Gro Harlem Brundtland was prime minister of Norway, and as director-general, led the World Health Organization’s response to the SARS outbreak in 2003. Helen Clark was prime minister of New ...

The world is facing a dangerous trend toward climate change. That was the message of Gro Harlem Brundtland, the first female prime minister of Norway and the “Mother of Sustainability,” during ...

I thought the bleedings were a result of hormone treatment and I did not think of cancer,” said Harlem Brundtland to TV 2 Nettavisen. The doctor said that if she did not hear from him everything ...

In 1981 Brundtland was elected Prime Minister at the age of only 42 - Norway's youngest Prime Minister and the first woman in the post. One of the first things she did was to introduce a 40% quota ...

Brundtland gained a reputation for speaking out. In 1994 she spoke out at the World Population Conference in Cairo. Her speech was considered highly controversial as she spoke with great ...