Gro Nystuen is a Senior Partner at the International Law and Policy Institute (ILPI) and dr. juris Associate Professor of Public International Law and International Humanitarian Law/the Law on Armed Conflict at the Defence Staff University College in Oslo.
From 1991 to 2005, she worked for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on issues such as the international Arms Trade Treaty, peace agreements, international criminal law, penal law and procedural law, human rights law, and corporate social responsibility. From 2004 to 2011, Nystuen chaired the Council on Ethics for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund – Global.