NHH’s first Rafto Professor in Human Rights
Professor Caroline Flammer is NHH’s new Visiting Professor in Business and Human Rights. Flammer holds the Thorolf Rafto Memorial Lecture 5 September.
Professor Ivar Kolstad
- Ivar.Kolstad@nhh.no
- Telephone
- +47 55 95 91 54
- Department
- Accounting, Auditing and Law
- Office
- C914
- Expertise
- Business Ethics Political Economy Development Economics
Ivar Kolstad is a Professor of Business Ethics. His current research focuses on corporate social responsibility and the political economy of globalization and development. His work has been published in a diverse set of journals in the fields of international business, economics, ethics, political science and development studies. Kolstad has managed a number of major research projects, funded by the Research Council of Norway, the World Bank, DFID, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norad, the Government of Malaysia, Irish Aid, and more. He has substantial experience from research in developing countries in Africa and Asia, in particular Angola, Tanzania, and Bangladesh. He is currently an Associated Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, and was deputy chair-person of the National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (NESH) in the period 2018-2021. Kolstad got his PhD from the Norwegian School of Economics in 2003.
Please download CV here
Selected publications
| Author(s) | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Wiig, Arne; Kolstad, Ivar; Kandilige, Leander; Talleraas, Cathrine | Effects of information about irregular migration on transit community attitudes towards migrants | World Development Volume 193 (0 pages); 2025 |
| Cohen, Naiole; Kolstad, Ivar; Ndalamba, Ken; Wanda, Fernandes; Wiig, Arne | Information and accountability: Experimental evidence from Angola | The Extractive Industries and Society Volume 23 (0 pages); 2025 |
| Kolstad, Ivar; Wiig, Arne | How does exposure to EITI member countries affect extractive industry conduct? | Review of International Political Economy (0 pages); 2025 |
| Chiu, Winson Tsun Hin; Kolstad, Ivar | NGO campaign responses to corporate environmental policies and practices | Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management; page 1 - 24; 2024 |
Dissemination
THREE PROFESSOR PROMOTIONS
Sissel Jensen at the Department of Economics has been promoted to full professor at NHH. Ivar Kolstad at the Department of Accounting, Auditing and Law and Walter Pohl at the Department of Finance have also been promoted from associate professor to professor this spring.