Anne Lindboe

Anne Lindboe (born 1 August 1971) is a Norwegian politician and paediatrician, who is currently serving as the mayor of Oslo since 2023. She previously served as the Norwegian Children's Ombudsman from 2012 to 2018.regjeringen.no (27 April 2012)
Anne Lindboe blir nytt barneombud
, retrieved 27 April 2012

Early life, education and medical career

Anne Lindboe grew up in Revetal, Vestfold. Her parents were teachers. As a young girl she sang in the Sandefjord Jentekor.Hugo Lauritz Jenssen et al
Alt for barna
Dagens Næringsliv, 3 March 2012

She obtained the cand.med. (MD) degree at the University of Oslo in 2000, and also holds an MBA in Management from the Norwegian School of Economics. She was approved as a specialist in paediatrics in 2011.

From 2008 to 2011, she was a consultant at ''Statens Barnehus'' ''Oslo'', and from 2010 also a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. She worked as an intern at ''Bærum Hospital'' 2001–2002 and as an assistant physician at ''Drammen Hospital'' 2002–2003 and Ullevål University Hospital 2004–2007. In 2010, she admitted to the PhD programme at the University of Oslo, but has not completed a doctorate.regjeringen.no (27 April 2012)
Anne Lindboe utnevnt som nytt barneombud
retrieved 27 April 2012

Political career

Mayor of Oslo

In July 2022, she was nominated as the Oslo Conservatives' mayoral candidate for the 2023 local elections. Following the election which resulted in a Conservative victory, Lindboe became mayor on 25 October, with the Progress Party's Julianne Ofstad as deputy mayor.

Children's Ombudsman

She has compared long time child custody conflicts to child neglect, and has suggested that mediation between parents should be mandatory before such cases are brought in for court.

In the summer of 2012, she was interviewed for '' Vårt Land'', where she proposed that religious male circumcision be replaced with a symbolic ritual. Invited in Helsinki at the NOCIRC & Sexpo symposium on 2 October 2012, Lindboe confirmed that she was approached by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, but upheld her view that traditional male circumcision should be banned.
In 2013, Lindboe and the children's ombudsmen from Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland along with the Chair of the Danish Children's Council and the children's spokesperson for Greenland passed a resolution to "Let boys decide for themselves whether they want to be circumcised."Nordic Association of Ombudsmen
Let the boys decide on circumcision

Adopted at Oslo, 30 September 2013. They further declared that "Circumcision without a medical indication on a person unable to provide informed consent conflicts with basic principles of medical ethics."Nordic children’s ombudsmen take historic step to protect children’s rights
Tuesday, 1 October 2013

After her departure in 2018, she became the chair of the National Association of Private Kindergartens. She resigned her position on 3 January 2022 with immediate effect.

Personal

Anne Lindboe is married and has three children. The family lives in Ullevål Hageby, Oslo.

References

External links

Interview with Paul Mason norway ombudsman site

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1971 births
Living people
University of Oslo alumni
Norwegian School of Economics alumni
Norwegian pediatricians
Politicians from Oslo
Oslo University Hospital people
Directors of government agencies of Norway
Children's rights activists
Children's Ombudsmen in Norway
Mayors of Oslo
Norwegian women physicians
21st-century Norwegian politicians
21st-century Norwegian women politicians