About me

I did my Ph.D. at The Economics Department at the Norwegian School of Economics, affiliated with FAIR/The Choice Lab.  

My main supervisor is Professor Bertil Tungodden, scientific director of the research group FAIR and co-director of The Choice Lab. My external supervisor is Bowman Family Professor Avner Greif, at The Department of Economics at Stanford University. 

You can read about my Ph.D. dissertation here. 

In Spring  2022 I was a Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford in the Department of Economics working with Professor Avner Greif on "A Theory of Moral Authority". 

From 2018 to 2020 I was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science post-doc at Hitotsubashi  University in Tokyo.

You can read about my project here.

From 2013 to 2014  I was a visiting researcher at UC Berkley's Economics department. 

I have two master´s degrees, one in Economics from the University of Oslo and one in Political Economy and Political Science from The London School of Economics. I also have two bachelor´s degrees, one in Economics with a Law minor and one double major in Comparative Politics and Mathematical Statistics, both from The University of Bergen. I was a member of the Mathematics Students Union and worked as a journalist for the student newspaper at The University of Bergen; Studvest (2008). 

My work experience is as a researcher for the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment (2018), the Norwegian Drug and Alcohol Administration SIRUS (2012), and analyst for The Norwegian National Rail Administration (2010).

I am currently a member of the Progress Party as a board member and study leader of the Tromsø Progress Party.  I was active in Young Liberals serving as chief international representative (2007-2008) and as a delegate to the 2008 National Congress of the National Meeting of the Liberal Party (Venstre) and the 2007 International Foundation for Liberal Youth conference.  In 2022-23 I have served on a local board and organized seminars and workshops on international political economy for the Center Party.  I like to describe myself as a libertarian realist which is somewhere between conservative and libertarian. 

I love reading; check out my books at Goodreads  Some of my favorite authors are  Rober Nozick, Jared Diamond, Jon Fosse, Cormack McCarthy, and Thomas Pynchon. In my spare time, I play chess, table tennis, and the guitar. I also enjoy running, juggling, and traveling, In 2023 I completed the Jõnkoping Ironman 70.3 triathlon and a full 10-day vipassana silent meditation retreat.  I also like to take photographs; some of them are on my Instagram account.

I live with my wife, Ina, and daughter, Freya, in Tromsø, Norway.