Einar Hope received his PhD in Economics from NHH in 1967. He was Managing Director of the NHH-based applied research institutions, Centre for Applied Research (SAF) and Foundation for Research in Industrial Economics (SNF), 1978-95. He was Director General of the Norwegian Competition Authority, 1995-99, and was appointed Statoil Professor in Energy Economics in 1999; a position he held until retirement at 67 in 2004.

He developed and managed the MBA Summer School course at NHH for foreign students in Natural resource management and policy: The Norwegian model, 2007- 2010. Hope’s main research interests are Energy and environmental economics and policy, and Competition analysis and policy.

He has served on a number of boards of public and private bodies and chaired several government committees on economic and industrial policy. He has been involved quite a lot in organizing conferences in energy economics and related fields, nationally and internationally, and was President of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE), 2010.

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