Signe Marie Breivik, currently senior adviser at the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, has been living in Palestine for about 25 years and, together with her husband Ali Ayyad, established the Women’s Center (as volunteers) and continues to facilitate its development and support the center’s sustained activities. She has previously worked with Augusta Victoria Hospital, UNICEF in East Jerusalem, TIPH in Hebron, and the Norwegian Representative Office of Norway to the Palestinian Authority.