Maaretta Jaukkuri Foundation • Åse Aulie Michelet (chair)

MJFs founding board meeting in Kvalnes, february 2016. Left to right: Gediminas Urbonas, A K Dolven, Yoshiaki Nishino, Katya García-Antón, Hilde Methi, Maaretta Jaukkuri, Thora Dolven Balke, Audhild Dahlström, Mari Jaukkuri, Cecilia Jaukkuri, Francis McKee

The vision of MJF would not be possible without the kind support of many artists including, Kari Cavén, Tony Cragg, Dorothy Cross, A K Dolven, Anne-Karin Furunes, Antony Gormley, Dan Graham, Alfredo Jaar, Anish Kapoor, Cildo Meireles, Esko Männikkö, Bjørn Nørgaard, Markus Raetz, and Gediminas Urbonas.

Åse Aulie Michelet was born in Oslo 1953 , where she lives today. She holds a degree in pharmacy from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) and the University of Oslo.

Åse has experience from a range of international boards in several fields. Today she chairs board such as those of BI Norwegian Business School, Spin Chip Diagnostics AS and Inven2 AS and she is a member of the board of Terveystalo Oy in Finland. She was manager and then director of research at Nycomed, president at Amersham AS and CEO of Marine Harvest for two years. She held, among others, the position of CEO at Teres Medical Group AS. Åse has published articles in several publications within pharmacology and toxicology in a range of international journals.