Prof Kirsten Sandberg

 Kirsten Sandberg is a Norwegian jurist and expert on the rights of children. She has served as Acting Supreme Court Justice in Norway, and has performed as chair of the Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. Sandberg is Professor of Law at the University of Oslo Faculty of Law, with over 25 years of experience as a child law specialist. She has been a member and Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. She served as Acting Supreme Court Justice in the Supreme Court of Norway 2010–2011, and was in 2011 elected a member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child as the nominee of the Government of Norway.