CV
Education Philosophiae Doctor
Major in Business Finance and part of the Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering
Area of research Regional Industrial Development, Tourism, Innovation, entrepreneurship and Business Learning
Position as: Head of Department/ Associate Professor of Business Administration
Teaching Experience: Business Finance, Innovation, Tourism Management, Organization Theory, Organizational
Psychology, entrepreneurship, scientific methods, Industrial Development
Work experience
2017 Head of Department of Business, Strategy and Political Sciences, HSN
2016 Head of Industrial management group at HSN
2012 Chairman of the Board BN Bygg AS
2012- 2015 Director of Centre of Tourism Management, BVUC ( Buskerud and Vestfold
University College)
2011-2012 Member of the Board Nore and Uvdal Industrial Company
2008-2009 Chairman of Hokksund Town Council
2007- 2008 Deputy Chairman of Hokksund Town Council
2003-2006 Chairman of Ethnic Music Club
2003 Associate Professor at BUC
Teaching, research, project manager report and research program
2002-2003 Board member of Ethnic Music Club
1999-2003 Assistant Professor, BUC
Teaching, research, project manager report and research program
1998- 2000 Senior Planner, deputy manager of Memento Advertising Agency
Responsible for marketing strategic planning, international and national customers international contact with
the FCB system
1992 - Personally owned consultancy company
Lecturing activities, Consultant, teaching
1993 - 1998 Assistant Professor, Buskerud and Vestfold University College
Teaching, research, reports, project manager
1992 - 1993 University College teacher / part-time teacher, SLHK
Education
2014 Philosophiae Doctor
2008 Participating researcher. Conversation and knowledge creation through the qualitative methods. Phd course at UMB
- Experience of Nature, use of the environment and Second Homes
2005 - Brand Management, Phd course at the Norwegian School of
Economics
- Research design and methodology choice, Phd course at the Norwegian School of Economics
- Testing causal models, Decision models in marketing Phd course at the Norwegian School of Economics
2001- 2003 Immaterial rights, Master’s Degree Course
Product development, Master’s Degree Course
Intra/ entrepreneurship, Master’s Degree Course
Innovation Technology, Master’s Degree Course
Total Quality Management, Master’s Degree Course
Quantitative Methods, Phd course at the University of Michigan
Organization Theory, Phd course, University of Oslo
Qualitative methods, Phd course, University of Oslo
1993 Major in Business Finance
The National Teacher Training College for Commercial Subjects
1993 Minor Course in Social Pedagogy University of Oslo
1991 Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Trondheim
Research projects:
2014 -2016 Head of project VRI 3- Regional Innovation in Tourism, Health, and High-tec Industry, The Research Council of
Norway
2013- 2013 Head of project: Second Home owners value creation in Sigdal Municipality
2012 - 2013 Head of project: Guest Satisfaction at Destination Norefjell
2012 -2016 Head of project: Tourism monitoring, The Oslofjord Funding, BFK, IN
2011 - 2013 Deputy Head of project VRI 2- Tourism at Hemsedal, the Research Council of Norway
2010 - 2011 Head of Pilot project – Development of Tourism Monitoring, the Oslofjord Funding
2010 - 2010 Head of project –Second Home Tourism in Buskerud and the value creation?
2009-2011 Research within the VERDI project, EU project
2008 - 2010 Deputy Head of project VRI 1 –Tourism, the Research Council of Norway
1994 -2008 Head of project and associate member of various research projects, partly reflected in publications mentioned below