Anne Hege Grung
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Anne Hege Grung (born 4 November 1965) is a Norwegian professor of interreligious studies and feminist, and the President of Norway's main women's and girls' rights NGO, the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights; she succeeded supreme court justice Karin Maria Bruzelius as President in 2020.
Grung is (full) professor of interreligious studies at the University of Oslo and is known for her research on interfaith and human rights dialogue, especially Christian–Muslim dialogue; her work focuses especially on the status of women in religious communities, including violence against women. Grung is a member of the theological committees of the Church of Norway and the Church of Sweden.
She was awarded the prize "theologian of the year" by Norsk kvinnelig teologforening in 2002 and the prize Brobyggerprisen in 2003.