The Board
This is NUPI’s Board for the 2026–2029 term. The Board has been appointed by the Ministry of Education and Research.
Chair of the board
- Karl Erik Haug, Professor of Modern History and Head of Department at NTNU (Trondheim)
Members
- Teija Tiilikainen, Director of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Helsingfors)
- Laila Susanne Vars, Senior Adviser at the Sámi Parliament (Kautokeino)
- Simen Bræin, Senior Vice President at Statkraft (Asker)
- Christian Chramer, Director of the Norwegian Seafood Council (Tromsø)
Deputy members
- Lise Rakner (1st deputy member), Professor of Political Science at the University of Bergen (Bergen)
- James Jerome John Cameron (2nd deputy member), Associate Professor of Modern North American History (Oslo)
Employee representatives
- John Karlsrud (Research Professor, NUPI)
- Marie Furhovden (Senior Communications Advisor, NUPI)
- Jenny Lorentzen, vara for John Karlsrud (Senior Researcher, NUPI)
- Kacper Szulecki, vara for Marie Furhovden (Research Professor, NUPI)