Who we are

Per Heggenes

Member of the SEforALL Leadership Council

Per Heggenes serves on numerous advisory boards for humanitarian and development organizations and has taken a special interest in helping reform the way the global community works to embrace the rights of refugees and migrants – aimed at positive integration that leads to economic independence and self-reliance.

In 2019, Heggenes was appointed by the UN Secretary-General to join the High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement with the goal of developing durable solutions to protracted internal displacement.

Previously, Heggenes held global and regional leadership roles for the shipping and logistics company Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics and global public relations firm Burson-Marsteller, based in London and New York. Heggenes served in the Norwegian Air Force and graduated from the University of Augsburg in Germany with a "Diplom Oekonom".