Born in Oslo as a daughter of Gudmund Harlem, Brundtland was educated as a medical doctor ( cand. med.

Brundtland became Norwegian Prime Minister for two subsequent terms: the first was from 9 May 1986 until 16 October 1989.

In 1983, Brundtland was invited by then United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar to establish and chair the World Commission on Environment and Development ( WCED ), widely referred to as the Brundtland Commission, developing the broad political concept of sustainable development in the course of extensive public hearings that were distinguished by their inclusiveness and published its report Our Common Future in April 1987.

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.

Brundtland was elected Director-General of the World Health Organization in May 1998.

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.

Brundtland was awarded the Charlemagne Prize of the city of Aachen.

In 2006 Brundtland was a member of the Panel of Eminent Persons who reviewed the work of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ).

The term ' sustainable development ' was used by the Brundtland Commission which coined what has become the most often-quoted definition of sustainable development as development that " meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

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.

In the mid-1980s, a 500-page report ( Brundtland Report ) which Bolin was involved with contributed to the setting up of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ).

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.

He held both positions until 1992, when he was elected party leader, succeeding long-time leader Gro Harlem Brundtland.

On 23 October 1996, Gro Harlem Brundtland informed Jagland she was withdrawing from politics and leaving him as head of government.

When asked if Brundtland was sure about Jagland, he replied, " Yes.

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.

Sustainability, itself, was first defined by the Brundtland Commission of the United Nations in 1987.

The Chairman of the Commission, Gro Harlem Brundtland, was appointed by Javier Perez de Cuellar, former Secretary General of the United Nations, in December 1983.

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.

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

In this capacity, Brundtland adopted a far-reaching approach to public health, establishing a Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, chaired by Jeffrey Sachs, and addressing violence as a major public health issue.

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.

Brundtland narrowly escaped assassination by Anders Behring Breivik on 22 July 2011.

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.

Breivik arrived on Utøya at 17: 18 that day ; Brundtland had left the island about two hours earlier.

Breivik said that while Brundtland had been his main target, he had still planned to massacre everyone else on the island.

She married Arne Olav Brundtland on 9 December 1960.

** The World Commission on Environment and Development, also known as the Brundtland Commission, publishes its report, Our Common Future.

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.

Formally known as the World Commission on Environment and Development ( WCED ), the Brundtland Commission's mission is to unite countries to pursue sustainable development together.

The Brundtland Commission has made an impact in helping to reduce the number of people living on less than a dollar a day to just half of what it used to be, but this can also be attributed to growth in China and India.

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.

Following publication of the Brundtland Report in 1987, Robèrt developed The Natural Step framework, setting out the system conditions for the sustainability of human activities on Earth ; Robèrt's four system conditions are derived from the laws of thermodynamics.

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.

He was eventually reprieved by the Labour government of Gro Harlem Brundtland on 3 July 1992.

The Brundtland Commission also provided momentum for Agenda 21.

Brundtland spearheaded the movement, now worldwide, to achieve the abolition of cigarette smoking by education and persuasion.

Brundtland's hallmark political activities have been chronicled by her husband, Arne Olav Brundtland, in his two bestsellers, Married to Gro ( ISBN 82-516-1647-6 ) and the sequel, Still married to Gro ( ISBN 82-05-30726-1 ).

In 1987, the publication of the Brundtland Report by the United Nations had paved the way to establish a environmental governance.

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

A minority government led by Gro Harlem Brundtland took over through the rest of the parliamentary period.