High North Dialogue April 5-6, 2017
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PEOPLE AT High North Dialogue Innovations in the Arctic April 5-6, 2017, Bodø, Norway Foto: Bjørn-Erik Olsen Bjørn-Erik Foto: BIOGRAPHIES High North Dialogue April 5-6, 2017 2 BIOGRAPHIES High North Dialogue April 5-6, 2017 ELENA DYBTSYNA ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Nord University Business School Elena Dybtsyna holds a position of Associate Professor in Business Administration at Nord University Business School and the High North Center for Business and Governance. She is also Program Coordinator for the Joint MSc Degree in Energy Management. She has a PhD from Bodø Graduate School of Business. Elena Dybtsyna is academic coordinator of the Master course “High North Dialogue: International perspectives on business and governance in the High North” and the PhD course “Governance in the High North: Implications for Arctic private and public sector”, both of which are organized in connection with High North Dialogue conference. EDDA FALK COMMUNICATION ADVISOR High North Center, Nord University Edda Falk is a Communication Advisor at the High North Center for Business and Governance. She holds a BA in English, French and Spanish, and an MA in Spanish didactics. Edda is Norwegian and has worked, studied and lived in Mexico, France, Argentina and Cuba. Previous work experience includes working as a Program Assistant at the Embassy of Canada to Norway, and as Arctic Advocacy Officer at Canada’s International Arctic Centre in Oslo. LINE KRISTIN HAUG ADVISER High North Center, Nord University Line Kristin Haug works as an adviser at the High North Center. She is also studying Ecological Economics (MBA) at Nord University. Haug holds a MA degree in Russian Studies from the University of Oslo. She has studied and worked in England, Russia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Previous employment includes Statnett SF and the University of Oslo. ANDREY KAZAKOV PROJECT MANAGER & ADVISOR High North Center, Nord University Andrey Kazakov is Advisor and Project Manager at the High North Center for Business and Governance, Nord University. Here he works with projects connected to cooperation between Norway and Russia in the fields of research, education and business. Kazakov has extensive experience of doing business in Russia since 1996, including seven years (from 2003 till 2010) of work as business consultant running projects for Russian and foreign companies. 3 BIOGRAPHIES High North Dialogue April 5-6, 2017 FRODE MELLEMVIK DIRECTOR High North Center, Nord University Frode Mellemvik is Dr. Oecon, and has written a number of books and articles within the fields of accounting, management, government, education, research and industry cooperation. Several of his topics are directly related to the High North. Mellemvik has worked at academic institutions in both Europe and the United States. He is an Honorary Doctor and Honorary Professor at several universities. ELENA ZHUROVA ADVISER High North Center, Nord University Elena was born and raised in Saint Petersburg, Russia and graduated from Baltic State Technical University. She has diverse work experience from the fields of consulting and education. Elena holds a PhD in Business Economics from Nord University. She now works as an adviser at the High North Center for Business and Governance, Nord University. IDA MARIA PINNERØD MAYOR Bodø Ida Pinnerød is the Mayor of Bodø, as well as an active member of the Norwegian Labour Party (AP). Ida has attained both a Master of Arts in Language and Literature, and a Cand. Mag in Sociology from the University of Tromsø. EIRIK SIVERTSEN NORWEGIAN MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT Labor Party / County of Nordland Eirik Sivertsen is a Norwegian Member of Parliament representing the Labor Party and the County of Nordland. Mr Sivertsen was elected to parliament the first time in 2009 and was re-elected in 2013. Since 2013 Eirik Sivertsen has been the Chair of the Norwegian parliament’s delegation to the Arctic Parliamentary Cooperation. Since 2014 he has also chaired the Standing Committee of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region, and was re-elected to this position at the Arctic parliamentary conference in Russia in June 2016. In the Norwegian parliament he serves as the First Vice-Chair of the Committee on Transport and Communication. 4 BIOGRAPHIES High North Dialogue April 5-6, 2017 Session 1 Innovation as a driver for development GRETE ELLINGSEN STATE SECRETARY Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation Grete Ellingsen is State Secretary for the Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation. She recently held a four year term as Mayor of the municipality of Sortland. Ellingsen has a law degree from the University of Oslo, and has previously worked as both a lawyer and a deputy judge. KEN COATES DIRECTOR The International Centre for Northern Governance and Development, University of Saskatchewan Ken Coates is Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan campus and Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Ken was raised in Whitehorse, Yukon, and has long-standing professional and personal interests in Aboriginal rights, northern development, northern Canadian history, science, technology and society, and Japan Studies. LARS THEODOR KINTEL FOUNDER AND INVENTOR ILMEfood.com Lars Theodor Kintel holds an MSc in Business from Nord University, Norway. He holds four Bachelor degrees. He was Norway’s representative in the 2016 Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative (YTILI), an initiative by the U.S. State Department to strengthen Euro-Atlantic integration. In 2015, he was chosen as one of 13 participants in the Ambassadors for Northern Norway Program, a program for leader talents from Arctic Norway. He is currently working on fish farming technology and the use of drones to improve sustainability in the hydropower industry. 5 BIOGRAPHIES High North Dialogue April 5-6, 2017 OTTO GREGUSSEN SECRETARY GENERAL The Norwegian Fishermen’s Association MORTEN BRUGÅRD SENIOR ADVISOR Innovation Norway Morten Brugård is a Senior Advisor with Innovation Norway, based in Vadsø. Morten is responsible for Innovation Norway’s Arctic 2030 Program, on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The aim of the program is to strengthen Norway’s business cooperation with Russia and other Arctic states, the Nordics, other European countries and others with an interest in the Arctic. ANDREAS ØSTHAGEN SENIOR FELLOW, PHD Arctic Institute / University of British Columbia Andreas Østhagen, from North Norway, is a senior fellow at The Arctic Institute while he is obtaining his PhD at the University of British Columbia under Professor Michael Byers. He is also affiliated with the High North Center at Nord University in Bodø, and the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies in Oslo. Session 2 Presentations of innovative projects in the Arctic MARIUS YTTERSTAD CEO Ytterstad Fiskeriselskap Marius Ytterstad is the CEO of the family owned fishing company founded in 1907. Located in Lødingen, the company, amongst other activities, runs and own the three purse seiners, M/S M.Ytterstad, M/S Rødholmen and M/S Svensgam. Marius is the chairman of the northern chapter of the Norwegian fishing vessel owner association, board member of the Norwegian fishing vessel owner association, and Norges Sildesalgslag. 6 BIOGRAPHIES High North Dialogue April 5-6, 2017 ØISTEIN ALEKSANDERSEN CEO Nofir Øistein Aleksandersen holds an MSc in Business, with specialization in ecological economics. Nofir was founded in 2008 with the purpose of establishing a nationwide system for collecting discarded equipment in Norway. 15 000 tons of plastic equipment from the fishing and fish farming industry is discarded each year in Norway alone. In 2012, Nofir was granted EU funding through the Eco-innovaton initiative. Since then, Nofir have collected material all over Europe. ØYSTEIN BRAATHEN LEADER Arctic Development Program, Statoil Øystein Braathen is currently heading the Metocean and Arctic Design department in Statoil, where he is responsible for research and technical services related to arctic operations. He holds a MSc in geophysics, from the Norwegian University of Technology and Science, NTNU in Trondheim. ANNE MARIT BJØRNFLATEN SVP COMMUNICATIONS Hurtigruten MIKKO NIINI CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD Navidom Ltd 7 BIOGRAPHIES High North Dialogue April 5-6, 2017 RUNE STORVOLD SENIOR SCIENTIST, EARTH OBSERVATION DEPARTMENT AND HEAD OF THE UNMANNED AIRCRAFT GROUP Norut Northern Research Institute Rune Storvold is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Director for the newly established Arctic Center for Unmanned Aircraft. He has background in optics and atmospheric physics from university of Bergen (MS) and University of Alaska Fairbanks (PhD). In 2005 he established the Unmanned Aircraft Group at Norut. He is co-chairing the Arctic Council Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programs Expert Group on Unmanned Aircraft, working for increased access to the Arctic Airspace for scientific data collection and emergency response using unmanned Aircraft. LARS BÄCKSTRÖM MUNICIPALITY STRATEGIST Kiruna, Sweden Lars Bäckström is Head of Development at Kiruna Municipality. Previously, he worked for 20 years at Luleå University of Technology where his portfolio included marketing, business strategy and sales. In the Kiruna municipality, Bäckström participates in the work of building the new city of Kiruna but also in efforts to diversify the economy and improve