Anne Lindboe
Mayor of Oslo
Assumed office
25 October 2023
DeputyJulianne Ofstad
Governing MayorEirik Lae Solberg
Preceded byMarianne Borgen
Children's Ombudsman of Norway
In office
1 June 2012 – 30 June 2018
Preceded byReidar Hjermann
Succeeded byInga Bejer Engh
Personal details
Born (1971-08-01) 1 August 1971
Sarpsborg, Østfold, Norway
Political partyConservative
Children3
ProfessionPaediatrician

Anne Lindboe (born 1 August 1971) is a Norwegian paediatrician who is currently the mayor of Oslo since 2023. She previously served as the Norwegian Children's Ombudsman from 2012 to 2018.[1]

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.[2]

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.[3]

Political career

Mayor of Oslo

In July 2022, she was nominated as the Oslo Conservatives' mayoral candidate for the 2023 local elections.[4] 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.[5]

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.[2]

In the summer of 2012, she was interviewed for Vårt Land, where she demanded that religious male circumcision changes in symbolic term.[6] 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.[7] 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."[8] They further declared that "Circumcision without a medical indication on a person unable to provide informed consent conflicts with basic principles of medical ethics."[9]

After her departure in 2018, she became the chair of the National Association of Private Kindergartens.[10] She resigned her position on 3 January 2022 with immediate effect.[11]

Personal

Anne Lindboe is married and has three children. The family lives in Ullevål Hageby, Oslo.[2]

References

  1. ↑ regjeringen.no (27. april 2012): Anne Lindboe blir nytt barneombud Archived August 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 27. april 2012
  2. 1 2 3 Hugo Lauritz Jenssen et al: Alt for barna Dagens Næringsliv, 3 March 2012
  3. ↑ regjeringen.no (27. april 2012): Anne Lindboe utnevnt som nytt barneombud, retrieved 27. april 2012
  4. ↑ "Eirik Lae Solberg og Anne Lindboe innstilt på topp for Oslo Høyre" (in Norwegian). Aftenposten. 1 July 2022. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  5. ↑ "Her er Oslos nye byråd" (in Norwegian). NRK Oslo og Viken. 25 October 2023. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  6. ↑ Vart Land (21. july 2012) Archived August 6, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  7. ↑ "@genitalautonomy" on Twitter
  8. ↑ Nordic Association of Ombudsmen. Let the boys decide on circumcision. Adopted at Oslo, 30 September 2013.
  9. ↑ Nordic children’s ombudsmen take historic step to protect children’s rights Tuesday, 1 October 2013
  10. ↑ "Anne Lindboe blir barnehagedirektør" (in Norwegian). Aftenposten. 28 May 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
  11. ↑ "Slutter på dagen" (in Norwegian). Dagbladet. 3 January 2022. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
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