Control Committee
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The Control Committee ensures that NDF’s operations are conducted in accordance with the Statutes. The Control Committee is responsible for the audit of the Fund and annually delivers an auditors’ report to the Nordic Council of Ministers. The members of the Control Committee are appointed by the Nordic Council. The Chairman is appointed by the Nordic Council of Ministers.
The Nordic Council of Ministers is the forum for Nordic governmental cooperation. The Ministers of Cooperation have the overall responsibility for Nordic cooperation. Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and the autonomous territories—the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland—are represented in the Nordic Council of Ministers. The Nordic Council is the official inter-parliamentary body in the Nordic Region with elected members from the five Nordic countries as well as from the three autonomous territories.
Members of the Control Committee
Chairman
Bill Fransson, Managing Director
Denmark
Thomas Jensen, Member of Parliament
Finland
Tuula Peltonen, Member of Parliament
Iceland
Ragnheiður Ríkharðsdóttir, Member of Parliament
Norway
Hans Frode Kielland Asmyhr, Member of Parliament
Sweden
Åsa Torstensson, Member of Parliament
Auditors appointed by the Control Committee
Sixten Nyman, Authorised Public Accountant, KPMG, Finland
Per Gunslev, Authorised Public Accountant, KPMG, Denmark
Secretary to the Control Committee
Birgitta Immerthal, KPMG, Finland