Following the resignation of Brundtland in 1996, Thorbjørn Jagland was elected leader of the Labour Party and became Prime Minister, while Stoltenberg was appointed Minister of Finance, an office he held until 17 October 1997 when Jagland and the entire government resigned.

In 1996 when Brundtland resigned, Thorbjørn Jagland stepped in for her and became the new Norwegian Prime Minister.

His debates with long-time adversary Gro Harlem Brundtland became legendary in Norway and were by several accounts based on personal as well as political differences.

Gro Harlem Brundtland () ( born Gro Harlem, 20 April 1939 ) is a Norwegian Social democratic politician, diplomat, and physician, and an international leader in sustainable development and public health.

Gro Harlem Brundtland is a member of Human-Etisk Forbund, the Norwegian Humanist Association.

** Norwegian parliamentary election, 1993: The Labour Party wins a plurality of the seats, and Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland retains office.

The program, inaugurated by then Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, is the longest continually operating international business school partnership in China.

In 2010 a group of forty prominent historians ranked Jagland as the weakest Norwegian prime minister since the end of the Second World War ; two years before, his predecessor Gro Harlem Brundtland had criticized his premiership in harsh terms and described Jagland as " stupid ".

* Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian former prime minister

In Norway, the magazine Pyton once parodied the comic by placing the Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland in the role of Groo.

Brundtland, a Norwegian medical doctor with a Master of Public Health degree from Harvard University, threw her full support behind the idea for a binding multilateral treaty on tobacco control.

Our Common Future is also known as the Brundtland Report in recognition of former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland's role as Chair of the World Commission on Environment and Development.

The 2005 version presented many famous Norwegian acts, such as Datarock, Torbjørn Brundtland of Röyksopp ( DJ set ), Bertine Zetlitz, Mental Overdrive, Tommy Tee, Jaga Jazzist and Nils Petter Molvær.

* Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland was named as the first female Prime Minister of Norway after the ruling Norwegian Labour Party chose her as its new leader to succeed Odvar Nordli, who resigned for health reasons.

* November 3 – Gro Harlem Brundtland assumes office as Prime Minister of Norway.

* February 4 – Gro Harlem Brundtland becomes Prime Minister of Norway.

** Gro Harlem Brundtland, leader of the Labour Party, resigns as Prime Minister of Norway.

This ultimatum was based on the fact that Jagland had assumed the Prime Minister post based on the votes collected by Brundtland in the 1993 election, which provided an unclear parliamentary basis for governing.

Brundtland had already subscribed to the ad-hoc tactic during her time as Prime Minister, describing it as " slalom racing in the Storting ".

* Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway

Gro Harlem Brundtland who was the former Prime Minister of Norway and was chosen due to her strong background in the sciences and public health.

Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland led the " Yes " campaign.

Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland of the Labour Party stated on 10 October 1995 that the government was in favor of the Triangle Link and opposed to the Hardanger Bridge.

* Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway, former Director-General of the World Health Organization

World leaders, such as Mexico's President Felipe Calderón ( 2009 ), Norway ’ s Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland ( 1987 ), Australia ’ s Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser ( 1980 ); conservation legends Dr. Jane Goodall and Dr. Sylvia Earle, Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton ; Nobel Laureates such as Dr. Thor Heyerdahl, Dr. Wangari Maathai, Dr. Mario Molina ; tribal and community leaders such as Tashka Yawanawa, Oren Lyons, Maqgubu Ntombela ; the heads of major international corporations ; and hundreds of budding conservationists have participated in the congress.

* Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway

* Kåre Willoch succeeded Gro Harlem Brundtland as Prime Minister of Norway, following the success of the Conservative Party of Norway in September elections.

State Secretary in the Ministry of the Environment from 1990 to 1991 and as Minister of Industry from 1993 to 1996 in the Third Brundtland Cabinet, respectively.

The Brundtland Commission provided the momentum for the 1992 Earth Summit / UNCED, that was headed by Maurice Strong, who had been a prominent member of the Brundtland Commission.

The Brundtland Commission also provided momentum for Agenda 21.

Brundtland was recognized in 2003 by Scientific American as their Policy Leader of the Year for coordinating a rapid worldwide response to stem outbreaks of SARS.

In May 2007, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named Brundtland, as well as Ricardo Lagos ( the former president of Chile ), and Han Seung-soo ( the former foreign minister of South Korea ), to serve as UN Special Envoys for Climate Change.

Brundtland now works for Pepsi as a consultant.

Gro Harlem Brundtland is a member of the Council of Women World Leaders, an International network of current and former women presidents and prime ministers whose mission is to mobilize the highest-level women leaders globally for collective action on issues of critical importance to women and equitable development.

She had been on the island of Utøya hours before the massacre there to give a speech to the AUF camp ; Breivik stated that he originally intended for Brundtland to be the main target of the attack, but he had been delayed while travelling from Oslo.

During his trial in 2012, Breivik revealed detailed assassination plans for Brundtland.

Brundtland received an operation for uterine cancer in 2002 at Ullevål University Hospital.

Following intense media attention surrounding the matter, Brundtland decided to change residence once more, back to Norway, and she also announced that she would be paying for the treatments herself.

The present members of this group are Desmond Tutu, Graça Machel, Kofi Annan, Ela Bhatt, Lakhdar Brahimi, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Jimmy Carter, Mary Robinson, Muhammad Yunus, and Aung San Suu Kyi ( with an empty chair for her ).

The Brundtland Commission set up by Gro Harlem Brundtland, the pioneer of sustainable development, provided the momentum for first Earth Summit 1992 – the United Nations Conference on Environmental Development ( UNCED ), that was also headed by Maurice Strong, who had been a prominent member of the Brundtland Commission – and also for Agenda 21.

Jagland said, " Martin had wanted to work for Gro Brundtland " ...

Brundtland also said that she wished for Jens Stoltenberg or Gunnar Berge to become the leader of the Labour Party.

From the end of the 1970s however, the party started to lose voters to the right, leading to a turn to the right for the party under Gro Harlem Brundtland during the 1980s.