Levi Fragell

Day: Friday, April 22
Hour: 10:00 - 10:30 am
Welcome and introductory remarks

Mr. Levi Fragell was President of IHEU from 1988 – 2003 and is currently Chair of IHEU’s Committee for Growth and Development.  

After a career as a school teacher, a journalist, a marketing  professional as well as press secretary for several cabinet ministers in Norway, Levi Fragell took up the leadership of the Norwegian Humanist Association in the 70s and led it through a great increase in membership.  

Levi Fragell was Chairman of the IHEU's 50th Anniversary World Humanist  Congress held in Amsterdam in 2002, and the 5th World Atheist Conference held in Vijayawada, India, in January 2005. He has traveled worldwide for the promotion of organised Humanism. 

His expertise is in Comparative Religion and Sociology and is known in the humanist circles as one of the strongest critics of Charismatic religions.