NCP Norway Secretariat

E-mail: kton@mfa.no

Phone: + 47 47 95 72 44

Kristel Tonstad has a law degree from the University of Oslo and a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard University. She served as Head of Secretariat of the Ethics Information Committee, which presented a draft law on transparency in supply chains, duty to know and due diligence (Transparency Act) to the Norwegian Government in 2019. In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tonstad worked with government policies on human rights (2015) and responsible business conduct (2009). She has served as a Norwegian diplomat in Egypt (2014 – 2016) and has previously worked as legal advocacy and policy adviser in the Norwegian Refugee Council and with UNICEF in Haiti and in the Republic of Georgia.

E-mail: Ase.Kristin.Sand@mfa.no

Phone: +47 23 95 04 63 / + 47 98 45 97 16

Sand has a Cand. Philol. degree in Media and Communication from the University of Bergen. She started in the Secretariat in 2018 and is responsible for the Norwegian NCP’s courses in responsible business conduct and due diligence for businesses. She also has experience in complaint handling. Sand worked many years in civil society in the Norwegian Burma/Myanmar Committee, with communication and advocacy. Main areas were responsible business conduct, human rights, women’s rights and democracy building. Sand has written the report “How to reduce risk: A guide for Norwegian companies in Myanmar” (in Norwegian) and conducted a study for Future in our hands on workers’ rights in the garment industry in Myanmar and Ethiopia.

Per N. Bondevik has a master’s degree in economics from the University of Oslo and the Université des Sciences Sociales in Toulouse. He has worked with international development cooperation, business and human rights since 1997, including six years as Managing Director of Ethical Trade Norway (until 2016).

Key areas of work include global supply chains, conflict minerals, capital flows, gender equality and public procurement. In the period 2011 to 2016, Bondevik was an expert member of Kompakt, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ consultation body for business and human rights.

As a consultant, he has been i charge of evaluating several major programs within business and human rights, with a particular focus on textile production in Asia.

Bondevik has worked as an advisor for corporate social responsibility in both the Norwegian Church Aid and FOKUS and spent seven years in Bolivia for the Norwegian Mission Alliance.