The Senate determines the content of education offered by BI, rules and regulations for admission, exemptions, exams, examination results and required competence level for faculty. The Senate makes recommendations to the President related to the appointment of faculty.
The Senate has 14 members: the President, Provost, Senior Vice President, four faculty representatives, two administrative representatives, two programme deans, one head of an academic department and two students. The President is chairman of the Senate.
Members autumn 2011:
| Tom Colbjørnsen |
President |
| Dag Morten Dalen |
Provost |
| Ulf Henning Olsson |
Senior Vice President |
| Gabriel Benito |
Dean of Doctoral programme |
| Rolv Petter Amdam |
Dean of Executive programmes |
| Knut Sogner |
Department administrators representative |
| Morten Olav Myhre |
Administrative representative |
| Kristian O. Haanes |
Local campuses representative |
| Anne Welle-Strand |
Faculty representative |
| Astrid Richardsen |
Faculty representative |
| Sverre Thomassen |
Faculty representative |
| Per Ingvar Olsen |
Faculty representative |
| Marte Lona |
Student representative - SBIO |
| Cathrine Øverli |
Student representative - BIS |