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ONS 2022

Join BI Norwegian Business School at one of the world’s largest meeting places for the energy industry, Offshore Northern Seas (ONS)

Speakers from BI Norwegian Business School

Karen Spens
Karen Spens

Karen Spens

Karen Spens was appointed President at BI Norwegian Business School from 1 August 2022. Spens has been rector of Hanken School of Economics since 2015.

She received her PhD from Hanken in 2001 and became professor of supply chain management and corporate geography in 2007. She has since held several leadership positions at Hanken, including Dean of education from 2010-2015. Spens has experience from several international organisations as member of the board at AACSB, a member of the EQUIS Committee and as a trustee of AMBA & BGA’s international board. Through these positions, she has gained insight into the operation of business schools and universities in a number of countries in Europe, Asia and South America.

Sut I Wong
Sut I Wong

Sut I Wong

Sut I Wong is Head of Department and Professor of communication and leadership at BI Norwegian Business School. She is also an adjunct faculty at University of Ljubljana and Research Scientist at SINTEF Digital.

She is the co-founder and has been the co-director of Nordic Center for Internet and Society at BI. Beside academic work, Sut I is highly involved in the industry and she currently is an advisory board member of two tech start-ups.

Espen Henriksen
Espen Henriksen

Espen Henriksen

Espen Henriksen is Associate Professor at the Department of Finance at BI Norwegian Business School. Henriksen holds a PH. D from Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business. 

From 2016 to 2018 he was also a visiting Associate Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara. His area of expertise is stock markets, macro economy, forex and portfolio management.

Geir Bjønnes
Geir Bjønnes

Geir Bjønnes

Geir Bjønnes is Associate Professor at at the Department of Finance at BI Norwegian Business School. He holds a PH.D from BI Norwegian Business School.

Bjønnes is primarily interested in Market Microstructure, Fixed Income, Treasury Auctions and International Finance. Bjønnes has been teaching courses in Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Fixed Income, Market Microstructure, Public Economics, International Economics and Finance. In addition to BI Norwegian School of Management, he is affiliated with the Stockholm Institute for Financial Research.

Randi Lunnan
Randi Lunnan

Randi Lunnan

Randi Lunnan is Professor Chair at Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at BI Norwegian Business School.

Lunnan´s research interest are strategic alliances, particularly how they develop over time, and international management where she looked into headquarter activities. She has been Professor at BI since 2008.  

Per Ingvar Olsen
Per Ingvar Olsen

Per Ingvar Olsen

Per Ingvar Olsen is professor at Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo. His research is primarily within business network dynamics, entrepreneurship, innovation, and industrial change.

Most of his teaching is executive and corporate education in business development theories and practices. He is presently also the co-director and head of research at the Center for Connected Care at Oslo University Hospital – working with the cluster of innovation ecosystem to research and develop innovative new healthcare services.

Øyvind Norli
Øyvind Norli

Øyvind Norli

Øyvind Norli is Professor of Economics and Head of Department at the Department of Finance at BI Norwegian Business School. Norli holds a PHd from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration from 1999. 

During ring the period 1999 through 2004, Norli held the David Y. Timbrell Junior Professorship (assistant professor) at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Between 2003 and 2005 Norli was a visiting assistant professor at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. Øyvind Norli has been at BI Norwegian Business School since 2005. His main research interests are empirical corporate finance and empirical asset pricing.

Carl Fey
Carl Fey

Carl Fey

Fey is Professor in International Business at Aalto University School of Business.

He is former Dean, Director of Executive Education, and Chair Professor of International Business at Nottingham University Business School China, and Professor in International Business at Stockholm School of Economics. He obtained his PhD from Ivey School of Business, Western University in 1997. From September 1, 2022 he will be Provost, Research and Societal Impact at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo. 

Hilde Bjørnland
Hilde Bjørnland

Hilde Bjørnland

Hilde Bjørnland is Professor of Economics at the BI Norwegian Business School. She holds a PhD (Dr.Polit) in Economics from the University of Oslo.

Bjørnland is Founder and Director of the research centre CAMP (Centre for Applied Macroeconomics and commodity Prices) at the BI Norwegian Business School and she holds a position as a scientific advisor to the Research Department of Norges Bank. She is elected Fellow at the International Association for Applied Econometrics (IAAE), Ex-President and elected member of the Executive Committe for the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics (SNDE), and research associate of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) at the Australia National University. Her main research interest are in the areas of applied macroeconomics and time series.

Espen Moen
Espen Moen

Espen Moen

Espen Moen has been a Professor of Economics at BI Norwegian Business School since 2003, and held the position as head of the Department in the period 2011 to 2019. From 2011-2016 Moen was non-voting member of the board of Norges Bank.

Moen holds a Ph. D in Economics from London School of Economics, where he also was employed as Lecturer. Moen’s area of research is mostly within economic theory, with applications mainly to labor economics and industrial organization. Moen is Research Fellow at the CEPR (Center for Economic Policy Research), and Fellow of the European Economic Association. He has published research papers in leading journals like the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, and American Economic Review.

Kjell Jørgensen
Kjell Jørgensen

Kjell Jørgensen

Kjell Jørgensen is Associate Professor at the Department of Finance at BI Norwegian Business School. Jørgensen holds a PH.D from BI Norwegian Business School.

His research interests cover the areas of asset pricing and market microstructure, with special emphasis on the implications of HFT and algorithmic trading. He also writes a regular column for the leading Norwegian financial newspaper.

Lars Huemer
Lars Huemer

Lars Huemer

Lars Huemer is Professor at Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at BI Norwegian Business School. He has a Ph.D from Umeå School of Business and Economics, Umeå University.

His research interests include interorganisational relationships and international management. Trust and identity are often core concepts. A recent project concerns interactions between multinational corporations and indigenous groups. 

Karoline Palmer
Karoline Palmer

Karoline Palmer

Karoline is a third year PhD candidate at BI Norwegian Business School, specializing in finance. Her main area of research is sustainable finance, with a focus on stock returns and carbon emissions. Her goal is to find a better way to evaluate carbon related risk from a business and investor perspective. 

Karoline has a diverse academical background, with both a BSc and MSc in Finance from BI Norwegian Business School, exchanges to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of California, Berkeley, in addition to studying Marine Technology for several years at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.