He also holds an honorary degree from Lund University, and is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
[3] He has also been a board member of the Anders Jahre Foundation for Scientific Research since 2003 and vice president of the European Institute of Social Security from 1993 to 1997.
[11] When the committee delivered its report in January 2009, it singled out six former parliament members as suspicious cases: Gro Harlem Brundtland, Kjell Magne Bondevik, Magnus Stangeland, Anders Talleraas, Thor-Eirik Gulbrandsen and Tore Austad.
[12] In addition to the issue of pay and income, the committee found that some might have circumvented the 75-year rule by counting years where they, despite being elected as parliament members, actually served as government ministers.
[14] As such the years which is really spent as government minister can not count towards the specific parliamentary pension, according to Kjønstad.
[13] As Kjønstad did not have a mandate to comment on individual cases of guilt,[15] he chiefly blamed the pension regulatory board (composed of other members of parliament) as well as the legislators in general for creating and enforcing the law in a vague way.