Team
Our Board
Arild Kjerschow has a degree in law from the University of Oslo (1971) and is now an extraordinary appeals judge in the Borgarting Court of Appeal. From 2005-2014, Kjerschow worked as a permanent judge in the Borgarting Court of Appeal. In the period 1996–2005 he was a magistrate/city court justice in Oslo, and from 1988–1996 he was director of the Directorate of Immigration. Before this, Kjerschow was head of the (former) State Immigration Office. Arild Kjerschow has also worked for the Government Attorney, for the Ministry of Justice’s legal department and for the (former) Prison Board. He has been with Right to Sight since 2016.
Jannicke Stadaas is an economist by training and has worked as chief financial officer (CFO) at Grieg Kapital for 20 years, including projects for the Grieg Foundation, with investments and asset management, and implementation of the UN’s sustainability goals in the group companies. Now she works in the architectural firm Grape. Jannicke started in Right to Sight in 2019.
Ingunn Lindborg is a Cand. Philol from the University of Oslo with Nordic languages and literature as a major. She has worked in the book industry her entire professional life, among others as Head of Communication for the publishing house Cappelen Damm. She led a digital communications department at the publishing house until 2017, and was a digital advisor at the same place. She has been involved in Right to Sight since 2016, and was chairman of the board 2019-22.
Contact: ingunnlindborg3@gmail.com
Trine Jacobsen founded Right to Sight in 2011, and was chairman of the board until 2019. She graduated as a medical doctor from RCSI Dublin/University of Oslo in 1986. Specialist in internal medicine from 1996, general medicine from 2018. She has worked at Ullevål hospital, Bærum hospital, Diakonhjemmet and most recently as a senior physician at Aker hospital until 1997. She started Ullevålsveien Medical Center in Oslo in 1998. Trine has been involved in several major clinical studies in cardiovascular disease and has worked for several years with clinical trials of drugs and participates in advisory boards for e.g. a. Lilly, Sanofi, AstraZeneca, Novo and Pronova Biopharma. She is particularly involved in the treatment and follow-up of type 2 diabetes.
Contact: trine.jacobsen@righttosight.no
Astrid Meistad studied medicine at Lund University in Sweden. She has worked as a doctor since 2000 and received authorization in 2002. She has worked with eye diseases since 2005 and became a specialist in ophthalmology in 2013. Workplaces have been the eye departments at Sykehuset Namsos, St Olavs Hospital and Ullevål. In 2012, she obtained the degree of Fellow of the European Board of Ophthalmology (FEBO). Since 2016, she has run a practice in Orkanger. She lived in Tanzania for two years as a teenager in connection with her parents’ involvement with NORAD. She started in Right to Sight in 2019.
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Alexander S. Thrane graduated as a doctor from the University of Leicester (UK) in 2008. He has a doctorate in advanced optics from the University of Oslo and Rochester (NY), and completed specialization as an ophthalmologist at Haukeland University Hospital. Since 2019, Alexander has worked as a gray and green cataract surgeon for various private players in the Nordics, including Memira and Volvat, as well as at Glimt Eye Clinic. Together with his colleague and wife Vinita Rangroo Thrane, he has assisted Right To Sight in further developing sustainable eye health services in Kenya since 2022.
Consulting opticians
Anne Norvik Jervell is a trained optician. She is a specialist in general optometry and contact lens fitting. Anne has a master’s in clinical optometry from the Pennsylvania College of Optometry (now Salus University) and runs her own specialist lens clinic in Oslo. She was previously head of the Norwegian Opticians’ Association and is now chair of the Norwegian Opticians’ Association’s specialist and competence council. In addition, she is the leader of the Norwegian Opticians Association’s humanitarian committee and Optometry Giving Sight in Norway.
Ida S. Ihler graduated as an optician from Buskerud University College, Kongsberg in 2010. She also has a master’s degree in optometry from 2015, with specialization in ortho-optics (single vision) and pediatric optometry (children). Ida has broad experience from the optometric industry through many years of work at Interoptik, as well as teaching optometry at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology in Kenya in 2019. Ida has worked at Volvat-Orbita Ophthalmology Center since spring 2020, where she has, among other things, responsibility for checking patients, as well as planning and assisting during operations.
Advisory Panel
Elisabeth Grieg
Chairman of the board of Grieg Shipping Group, part owner of Grieg Gruppen, Chief Executive Officer of Grieg International, chairman of the Garanti institute for export credit.
Holds a number of board seats and other positions in, among others, SOS Children’s Villages Norway, the World Economic Forum, DnV Nordic Committee, NHO: Forum for family businesses and active ownership, the European Movement in Norway and Bellona’s Sahara Forest Project. Previous positions, among others, President of the Norwegian Shipping Association, board member of Statoil and Norsk Hydro, and member of MARUT, the Minister of Industry’s Maritime Strategic Council.
Berit Reiss-Andersen
Lawyer in private practice from 1987. Court of Session for the Supreme Court and former permanent defense attorney at the Supreme Court. Permanent defense attorney at Oslo District Court and Borgarting Court of Appeal.
Member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (2012-18). Delegate to the European Bar Association (CCBE) and the International Bar Association. Deputy chairman of the board of Kulturhuset Bølgen. Former leader of the Swedish Bar Association (2008-12). Several positions, including in the Norwegian Lawyers’ Association’s Human Rights Committee, Legal Security Committee, board member of the Church’s City Mission, Svalbard Community Development and member of the Criminal Law Council. State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice 96/97.
Peter Daae
Civil economist BSB (1968) and MBA (1970) from the University of Minnesota. Former bank manager, as well as Honorary Consul General for Bangladesh and President of the Corps Consulaire de Norvège. Many years’ senior adviser and board member in small and medium-sized companies. Still involved in the hydropower sector in Nepal, both on the owner and board side of a medium-sized electromechanical industrial company.
Was a «prison visitor» at Ila via the Red Cross for many years, and has been involved in voluntary work all his life. He is the founder and general manager of the foundation IMPACT Norway, – an NGO that is a member of an international network of autonomous IMPACT foundations. IMPACT has unique projects in developing countries and prevents and treats needless disability among disempowered people in rural areas, often in hard-to-reach areas.
Employees
Chairman of the Friends’ Association
Kirsti Margrethe Dolva graduated as a doctor from the University of Oslo in 1988 and became a specialist in general medicine in 1998. She worked at the medical department of Bærum hospital, Åsbråten medical center before establishing herself at the Myrerskogveien doctor’s office in 1995. In the period 2001 – 2014, she was a GP at the Frysja doctor’s office in Oslo.
Contact: kirsti.dolva@righttosight.no
Communications Officer
Ida Louise Rudolph has a master’s degree in Intercultural Conflict Management and a master’s degree in International Relations. She previously had an internship at Right to Sight. Now she works with web analysis, search engine optimization and digital communication in Germany.