Academic Leadership
The Rector is the most senior representative of the faculty, is chairman of the board of NHH and acts as the official representative of the school. The Deputy Rector assists the work of the Rector and deputises for him/her when required. Both the Rector and the Deputy Rector are elected for a period of four years, with the opportunity to stand for re-election once.
Rector: Jan I. Haaland
Jan I. Haaland comes from Stavanger and is a professor at the Department of Economics. He qualified from NHH with the Siviløkonom degree in 1979, and continued at the school to graduate with a doctorate in 1984. Internationally Haaland has held visiting research positions at the OECD, the University of Cambridge and the University of Southampton, amongst others. His fields of teaching and research include international economics, trade, economic policy, economic integration and multinational companies. Haaland is active in several international research networks and is a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London. He has been a Board Member at NHH since 2002, and was Head of the Department of Economics from 1999 to 2001. Haaland is married with two children.
Deputy Rector: Gunnar E. Christensen
Gunnar E. Christensen, who comes from Bergen, is also Dean for International Affairs. He has a Bachelor degree in Economics from the University in Oslo, a Siviløkonom degree from NHH and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Christensen is based in the Department of Strategy and Management at NHH, where he was Head of Department from 1999 to 2001. In addition he is director for the Executive MBA programme in Global E-Management (GeM). Christensen researches and teaches within the area of information management, and has a particular interest in the business and value creation opportunities of e-commerce. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and has taught at Erasmus University in Rotterdam and Warsaw University of Technology. Christensen is married with three children.
Vice Rector: Mette H. Bjørndal
Mette Bjørndal comes from Bergen and is professor at the Department of Finance and Management Science. She is Siviløkonom from NHH in 1991, and graduated with a doctorate degree in 2000. Her fields of teaching are operational research, operations management, management accounting, and energy economics and regulation. Her research is mostly within energy economics, especially related to electricity markets and benchmarking and regulation of network companies. Bjørndal was a Board Member at NHH from 2003-2009, and has been Vice Rector since 2009
