Ingeborg Bø is member of the Board of Directors of European Foundation for Quality in E-learning (EFQUEL www.efquel.org ). She was from 2003 to 2007 President of the European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN) which is the most comprehensive European association in open, flexible, distance education and e-learning (www.eden-online.org) and now is an EDEN Senior Fellow. She is member of the Board of Trustees in International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE www.icde.org ) and is also chair of the Election Committee in ICDE.
She has her arts degree from the University of Oslo, Norway. All her professional life she has been working within the field of open and distance education in different positions. She started her career as editor at NKS, one of the biggest distance education institutions in Norway. She was executive director of the Norwegian Association for Distance and Flexible Education (NADE) for 15 years and now runs her own consultancy firm.
She has been member of different boards of directors in institutions for adult and distance education and is member of several national and international committees. She has been member of the international editorial board of the journal LLine, Lifelong learning in Europe. She has been speaker and member of programme committees at several national and international conferences.