Career
Røkkum has a Norwegian father and a Japanese mother. She was the Vice President and later the Secretary General of the International Federation of Liberal Youth (IFLRY). Røkkum has also been Young Liberals of Norway"s International Officer and Board Member from 2007–2010, and also served in the Young Liberals of Norway" s debate team during the local elections in 2007 and the manifesto committee that revised the policy platform in 2007-2008.
She has also been active in student politics, first as a representative in the Welfare Council and then as International Officer of the Student Parliament at University of Oslo, where she among other things, made an effort to start a global student movement through the International Coordination Working Group (ICWG).
She is currently the Vice President of the Norwegian Liberal Student Association (NLSF). Røkkum has been a delegate at several United Nations meetings
First on the European Students" Union"s delegation to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization" s World Conference on Higher Education that adopted United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization"s education policy for the next ten years. Then she attended UNFCCC"s Climate Negotiations, COP15, in Copenhagen on the International Federation of Liberal Youth (IFLRY)"s delegation, which she also helped coordinate the delegation of 100 young people from around the world.
Furthermore, she has represented IFLRY at an Economic and Social Council (of the UN) meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York and been a delegate for the Liberal International (LI) at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
Parallel to the participation in the Human Rights Council, Røkkum co-organized the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy.