Tore Lærdal

Tore Laerdal is Chairman of Laerdal Medical, a Norwegian family owned company that since modern lifesaving techniques were developed in 1960, has been a supplier of training manikins and patient simulators for training in resuscitation and patient safety. He is also Executive Director of the Laerdal Foundation for Acute Medicine. In recent years, Mr Laerdal has turned his full focus to global health challenges, and established Laerdal Global Health, a not for profit company with the sole purpose of providing highly affordable and culturally sensitive training and therapeutic solutions to help reduce maternal and newborn mortality in low resource settings. Mr Laerdal holds an MSc degree from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. He is an 2016 Oslo Business for Peace Honoree