Christian Hambro
Johan Christian Georg Hambro is a Norwegian attorney and former civil servant.
He was born in the UK to his father Edvard Hambro and mother Elisabeth. His father's parents were C. J. Hambro and Gudrun ; his mother's, Jacques Raverat and Gwen. His mother's mother's grandfather was the naturalist Charles Darwin. His uncles included Cato, Carl Joachim and Johan Hambro.
He studied law at university and was the director of the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority from 1981 to 1986 and of Statskonsult from 1986 to 1992. From May to September 1986 he was a State Secretary for the Minister of Justice in the Brundtland's Second Cabinet. From 1992 to 1995 he was a sub-director in the privat oil company Saga Petroleum. From 1995 to 2004 he was managing director of the Research Council of Norway.
Since 2004 he has been a partner in the law firm Gram, Hambro & Garman in Oslo. He has been chairman of the Norwegian chapter of Transparency International since 2010.
