In December this year, the CERN Council will make the appointment of Director-General of CERN (currently Fabiola Gianotti (IT)) for the next period, starting January 1, 2026 (https://inspirehep.net/jobs/2776177). As one of CERN’s 23 member states, Norway has a say in this appointment.
Mark Thomson (UK) has recently launched his candidacy, and is coming to Oslo the coming Monday, April 29. He will give a seminar at the University in the afternoon, including a Q&A session, starting 15:00: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1408321/.
The title of his talk is «Large Hadron Collider: What, Why and How». In this talk, he will give a retrospective of the LHC science and technology, and take a look ahead to the new technologies and the science questions at the LHC in the years to come. In the Indico link, you can find Thomson's CV and a pamphlet describing his candidacy.