Besides her new role at the World Federation of Right to Die Societies, Anna is currently the head of the Board for the Norwegian Right to Die Society. She is educated as an anthropologist and clinical psychologist.
Anna became interested in the Right to Die movement in the 1990s when working with terminally ill patients in the state of Washington (USA), before VAD (voluntary assisted dying) was legalized. In 2018, she assisted her mother with VAD in Washington. Her mother’s experience and her family’s experience with VAD made Anna even more passionate and determined to ensure that every human being has the fundamental right to decide over their own lives and their own deaths. She is currently finishing a book on her experience with VAD with her mother.
When not busy advocating for the right to die, Anna is an internationally known design anthropologist and psychologist working with forming products, services, and government policy that meet the needs of their beneficiaries. Anna has worked in a broad range of sectors, including the health sector, and in a broad range of positions: Boeing, Microsoft, a private radical innovation initiative for business leaders and concept makers, a design company, managing director of a foundation in Africa, and as an independent facilitator.
The WF statutes allow the Board to co-opt suitably qualified people to serve on the Board between General Assemblies. Anna will join all Board meetings, but will not carry a vote. When the Federation meets again in Tokyo, Anna can (if she wishes) be elected to serve as a full member of the Board from that point in time.