Safia Abdi Haase

Safia Yusuf Abdi Haase is a Somali graduate nurse, born in 1959, who trained at Harstad University College in Norway and holds a master's degree in international welfare and health policy from the University of Oslo. She has been an official of the Amathea Foundation since 2005, and in that role helped shape the Norwegian government's national action plan against female genital mutilation and serves as an ambassador against gender-based violence. She sits on the national board of KIM, which works for inter-cultural understanding, acceptance and protection, and is part of the Global Core Team of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network. Her honours include the 1999 Harstad Honorary Ambassador title and, in 2014, Norway's Order of St. Olav, which made her the first immigrant woman to receive it.