Benedicte Paus is a Norwegian doctor and medical geneticist best known to be the ex-wife of Ole Paus. She is a senior physician at the Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital, MD, and professor II in medicine medical genetics at the University of Oslo.
Benedicte Paus married her husband who was a singer named Ole Paus. The couple divorced in 2016. The couple has two daughters.
Who is Ole Paus’s wife Benedicte Paus?
Benedicte Paus is the daughter of graduate engineer and factory manager Jens Severin Christensen and librarian Karin Benedikte Christensen. Her mother’s family is of German-Baltic origin and was originally a noble landowner family from Estonia.
Benedicte Paus was born on June 26, 1960, in Drammen, Norway, and grew up in Svelvik and graduated as a doctor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 1988. She became an MD at the University of Bergen in 1994.
Benedicte Paus was appointed to the Cabinet on 13 December 2013 as a member of the Biotechnology Board, now the Biotechnology Council, for the period 2014 to 17. She was further appointed for the period 2019 to 2023.
Source: Ghanafuo.com