Staff - professional details incl. CVs

Evy Jørgensen, Josie Teurlings and Anne Kiøsterud

To the alphabetical list of the employees.

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MANAGEMENT
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Poul Wisborg, Head of the Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Noragric Photo: Ina Wisborg

Poul Wisborg, PhD
Head of Department
Phone: +47 64 96 53 21 (poul.wisborg*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: Land, development, social justice, human rights, tenure, political ecology. Current research: Transnational land deals in Africa.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications in Cristin
> Poul's Mendeley Web profile page

Randi Kaarhus, PhD
Head of Research
Phone: +47 64 96 53 27 (randi.kaarhus*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: science and politics, local knowledge, biodiversity, democracy and accountability, participatory approaches, discourse analysis.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Esben Leifsen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Phone: +47 64 96 53 04 (esben.leifsen*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: indigenous rights and natural resource extraction, indigenous economy and globalization, human rights based development and accountability, marginalization/poverty and reproductive governance, transnational migration, child welfare and child rights, ethno politics and multiculturalism, multi-sited fieldwork methodology.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Anne Kiøsterud
Personnel and Planning Manager
Phone: +47 64 96 53 10
(anne.kiosterud*at*umb.no)

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SCIENTIFIC STAFF
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Jens B. Aune, Dr. Scient.
Professor
Phone: +47 64 96 53 23 (jens.aune*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: agro-ecology, Integrated Plant Nutrition Management, carbon sequestration and rural development, bio-economical modeling and linkages agricultural development and environment.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Tor A. Benjaminsen, Ph.D.
Professor (on sabbatical until August 2013)
Phone: +47 64 96 55 16 (t.a.benjaminsen*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: Drylands, land tenure, environmental narratives, political ecology, environmental history.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Trygve Berg, Dr. Scient.
Associate Professor
Phone: +47 64 96 53 18 (trygve.berg*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: genetic resources, sustainable production systems.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Cassandra Bergstrøm, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Phone: +47 64 96 55 18 (cassandra.bergstrom*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: health and development, environmental health, rights and obligations, access, property issues, animate property, rule regimes, indigenous studies, inter-disciplinarity.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Ian Bryceson, Ph.D.
Professor
Phone: +47 64 96 55 07 (ian.bryceson*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: coastal and marine ecology, aquaculture, aquatic resource management, integrated coastal zone management.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Benjamin de Carvalho, Ph.D.
Aman II (20%)
Phones: (+47)22 99 41 27; mob (+47)414 29 826
(bdc[at]nupi.no)
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Lars Olav Eik, Ph.D.
Professor
Phone: +47 64 96 51 82 (lars.eik*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: small ruminant nutrition and production systems both in temperate and tropical countries.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Kjell Esser, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Phone: +47 64 96 53 19 (kjell.esser*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: environmental sciences, soil and water in ecosystems, soil productivity and conservation, watershed management, irrigation, land degradation and rehabilitation, terrestrial pollution, environmental impact assessment.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Nina Græger, PhD
Associate Professor II (20%)
Phone: +47 918 48 675 (nina.grager*at*umb.no; ng@nupi.no)
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Stig Jarle Hansen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (stig.hansen*at*umb.no)
Professional interests:
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Ruth Haug, Ph.D.
Professor
Phone: +47 64 96 53 36 (ruth.haug*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: rural development studies with focus on agriculture, food- and livelihood security; hunger, peace and violent conflicts, forced migration, sustainable use and management of natural resources; agricultural extension, participation and community development .
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Darley Jose Kjosavik, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Phone: +47 64 96 55 12 (darley.kjosavik*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: Political economy of development with special reference to marginalised classes and social groups, conflict and livelihoods, gender & development, climate change adaptation and mitigation.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Kassim Kulindwa, PhD
Associate Professor
Phone: +47 64 96 53 27 (kassim.kulindwa*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: Empirical analyses of issues concerning the environment and natural resources including; management and utilisation of water, energy, wetlands, fisheries, and wildlife. Others are climate change mitigation and adaptation, valuation of environmental goods and services, Non Timber Forest Products, livelihoods and poverty, Payments for Environmental Services, cost benefit analysis and EIA, all in the context of sustainable development.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

John Andrew McNeish, PhD
Associate Professor
Phone: +47 64 96 53 41 (john.mcneish*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: Regions/Countries of Interest: Latin America, Bolivia, Guatemala Professional Interests: Political Anthropology, Indigenous Rights and Politics, Political Participation, Energy and Natural Resource Politics, Legal Pluralism, Gender Relations, Development Theory, Violence, Poverty and Social Marginalization
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Lyla Mehta, Ph.D.
Professor II (20%)
Phone: +44 (0)1273 915677; +47 64 96 52 00; (L.Mehta*at*ids.ac.uk; lyla.mehta*at*umb.no )
> Curriculum vitae

Lars Otto Næss, PhD
Associate Professor II (20%)
Phone: +47 64 96 52 00; +44 (0)1273 915849 (lars naess*at*umb.no; l.naess@ids.ac.uk)
> Curriculum vitae

Ingrid Nyborg, PhD.
Associate Professor
Phone: +47 64 96 53 37 (ingrid.nyborg*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: gender, resource management, food and livelihood security, social networks, participation, mountain communities.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Gufu Oba, Ph.D.
Professor (on sabbatical until late autumn 2012)
Phone: +47 64 96 55 09 (gufu.oba*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: range management, ecosystem, pastoralism and pastoral development, climate change and the rangelands, pastoral production, droughts, range ecology, environmental history, indigenous knowledge of pastoral peoples, local communities participation in environmental conventions.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Bishal K. Sitaula, Ph.D.
Professor
Phone: +47 64 96 53 25 (bishal.sitaula*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: global change, greenhouse gases, carbon sequestration, land degradation, ecosystem restoration, soil erosion, watershed management, soil quality, water quality, soil pollution.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Espen Sjaastad, Dr. Scient.
Professor
Phone: +47 64 96 52 00
Professional interests:
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Gry Synnevåg, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Phone: +47 64 96 53 22 (gry.synnevag*at*umb.no)
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Arild Vatn, Ph.D.
Professor
Phone: +47 64 96 57 10 (arild.vatn*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: Theoretical work in institutional and ecological economics. Empirical areas of interest: Environmental governance, policies related to global warming and biodiversity protection, pollution control, land management, conflict management and multifunctional agriculture.
> Curriculum vitae > UMB Competence Catalogue
> Publications

Pål Vedeld, Ph.D.
Professor
Phone: +47 64 96 53 07 (pal.vedeld*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: Environmental governance, politics, planning and management, legitimacy of governance and participation, environmental resources and local livelihoods and dependence; protected areas policies and politics, agricultural, resource and development economics: peasant household economics; production, poverty and environmental issues, theories in and for interdisciplinarity website, http://www.engopa.no/.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Mensur Vegara, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Phone: +47 64 96 53 16 (mensur.vegara*at*umb.no)
Mobile phone: +47 906 38 884
Professional interests: Animal breeding, animal production, farming systems; Programme and project co-ordination and management; Institutional cooperation; Agricultural engineering and consulting.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

William Warner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - Writing Centre (Universitetslektor)
Phone: +47 64 96 55 15 (william.warner*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: Forest resources and ecological engineering.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

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Staff on extended leave:

Siri Eriksen, Ph.D. (Maternity leave until mid-April 2014)
Associate Professor
Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (siri.eriksen*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: Social vulnerability to environmental change, in particular climatic variability and extremes such as droughts and floods.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

- Fred Håkon Johnsen, Ph.D. (until 31 Dec 2014).
Professor
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

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RETIRED BUT ACTIVE ON PROJECT/SUPERVISOR/etc BASIS
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Bill Derman, Ph.D.
Professor emeritus
Phone: +47 64 96 53 09; Cell: 90217113 (bill.derman*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: agrarian change, land and water reform, human rights, Southern and West Africa, resettlement.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Thor S. Larsen, Ph.D.
Researcher
Phone: +47 64 96 53 13 (office); +47 90 92 92 82 (mobile) (thor.s.larsen*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: ecological research, wildlife population dynamics and management, management of protected areas and buffer zones, community participation in development, environmental impact assessment.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Nadarajah Shanmugaratnam, Ph.D.
Professor emeritus
Phone: +47 64 96 55 08 (n.shanmugaratnam*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: Political Economy and Institutional Economics; Policy and institutional aspects of rural development, Reconstruction of war-affected societies, Natural resource management.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications
> Selected articles and lectures

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EMERITUS
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Stein W. Bie, Ph.D.
E-mail: steinbie*at*online.no
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Lars Sjøflot, Dr. Scient.
Professor emeritus
E-mail: lars.sjoflot*at*umb.no
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Frik Sundstøl, Dr. Scient.
Professor emeritus
E-mail: frik.sundstol*at*umb.no
> Publications

Ola Syrstad, Ph.D.
Professor emeritus
> Publications

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POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWS
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Lutgart Lenaerts, PhD (Belgium)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Phone: +47 64 96 53 38 (lutgart.lenaerts*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: climate change adaptation; humanitarian interventions; pastoralism; social and social-ecological interactions in natural resource management; development studies; political ecology; Ethiopia
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Andrei Florin Marin, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Phone: +47 64 96 53 20 (andrei.marin*at*umb.no )
Professional interests: climate change vulnerability and adaptation in socio-ecological systems; pastoralism; multiple stressors; globalization; development studies; access and rights to resources.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Synne Movik, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Phone: +47 64 96 53 05; (synne.movik*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: Development theory, political economy, natural resource governance, property rights regimes, water policy and legislation, water and sanitation issues.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Charlotte Nakakaawa, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Phone: +47 64 96 53 34
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Simon Pahle, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Phone: +47 64 96 55 10; (simon.pahle@umb.no)
Professional interests: Labour rights and trade unions in the global political econony; wage workers and labour relations in agriculture; multilateral regimes (esp. ILO; WTO; IFIs); corporate social responsibility; comparative political development; aid Geographic keywords: Brazil; South Africa.
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

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PhD RESEARCH FELLOWS
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Hans Nicolai Adam (Germany)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 61 50 (hans.adam*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Public Works Programmes: Prospects for climate change mitigation adaptation in combination with sustainable development. A case study of the MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act).
Supervisor(s): Darley Kjosavik and N. Shanmugaratnam
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Abiyot Eliyas Anbacha, Ethiopia
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 55 13 (@umb.no)
Title: The nexus between gender and climate change: vulnerability and adaptation strategies among Pastoral Women of Borena, Ethiopia
Supervisor: Darley Kjosavik
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Marianne Aasen (Norway)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: 64 96 52 00 (marianne.aasen*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Can a combination of policy instruments increase the effectiveness and public acceptability of environmental policies?
Supervisor(s): Arild Vatn, Pål Vedeld and Hege Westskog (Cicero)
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Yeshtila Wondemeneh Bekele (Ethiopia)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 55 13 (*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Technology of Rule and Poverty in Ethiopia: A Study in political economy
Supervisor(s): N. Shanmugaratnam and Darley Kjosavik
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Grete Benjaminsen (Norway)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 53 29 (grete.benjaminsen*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Implementing REDD in Zanzibari forests: An investigation of process, actors and discourses
Supervisor(s): Randi Kaarhus and John Andrew Mcneish
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Ingunn Bjørkhaug (Norway)
Research Fellow - Development studies
Research topic: The winners and the losers: Displaced populations and host population in Uganda and Liberia
Supervisor(s): Pål Vedeld and Morten Bøås (Fafo)
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Kaja Borchgrevink (Norway)
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Research topic: Private Islamic Charity and Approaches to Poverty
Reduction among Pakistani Muslims: Religion, Gender and Development
Supervisor: Ingrid Nyborg
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Shai A. Divon (Norway)
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 55 13 (shai.divon*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Development and National security: post 9/11 process and development politics of the United States in Mali
Supervisor(s): Bill Derman, Cassandra Bergstrøm and Stig J. Hansen
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Noor Elahi (Pakistan)
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 55 13
Research topic: The social and cultural roles of gender in rural livelihood and development. A study of North West Pakistan
Supervisor: Ingrid Nyborg
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Getachew Sime Feyissa (Ethiopia)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 55 13 (getachew.feyissa*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Intensification of cereal crop productin through consevation tillage, microdosing and seed priming, central rift valley region of Ethiopia: Agronomic and socioeconomic return assessments.
Supervisor(s): Jens Aune, Kassim Kulindwa and Hussien Mohammed
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Mohamed Gaas (Somalia)
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Phone: 64 96 52 00 (mohamed.gaas*at*umb.no)
Reseach topic: The role and the impact of Somali Diaspora in conflicts, peace and state buildings, and reconstructing of Somalia.
Supervisor: Stig Jarle Hansen
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Hadsh Tesfa Gebreab, Ethiopia
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 55 13 (hadsh.tesfa.gebreab@umb.no)
Title: Urban land law administration and tenure security in Ethiopia: a critical study of the law and practice in the Tigray Regional state.
Supervisor: Erling Berge (ILP), Co-supervisor Espen Sjaastad
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Sunetro Ghosal (India)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: 64 96 52 00 (sunetro.ghosal@umb.no)
Research topic: Probing Human-Wildlife Interaction in Human-Dominated Multi-Use Landscapes in Rural India.
Supervisor(s): Darley Kjosavik and Pål Vedeld (Noragric), Ketil Skogen (NINA)
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Lars Kåre Grimsby (Norway)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: 64 96 53 39 (lars.grimsby*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Biofuels and acces to energy in rural livelihoods in East Africa.
Supervisor(s): Jens Aune and Fred Håkon Johnsen
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Marit Heller (Norway)
Research Fellow - Environemnt and Development Studies
Phone: 64 96 52 00 (marit.heller*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Preliminary title: Environmental policy and human action
Supervisor(s): Arild Vatn, Randi Kaarhus and Frode Alfsnes
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Cecilie von Hirsch (Norway)
Research Fellow - Environement and Development Studies
Research topic: Participation, sovereignties and the politics of environmental governance: A study of efforts to protect forests and the implementation of UN-REDD in Bolivia
Supervisor: John McNeish and Pål Vedeld
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Camilla Houeland (Norway)
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Research topic: Nigerian Trade Union’s Role in the Niger Delta Conflict
Supervisor: John McNeish
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Ingvild Jacobsen (Norway)
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 55 13 (ingvild.jacobsen*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Womens' security in a post-conflict context
Supervisor(s): Ingrid Nyborg and Shaheen Sardar Ali
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Kathrine Ivsett Johnsen, (Norway)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 55 13 (kathrine.ivsett.johnsen@umb.no)
Land-use conflicts in Finnmark: Obstacles and opportunities for sustainable pasture management
Supervisor: Tor A. Benjaminsen
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Lydia Gaspare Kanyairita (Tanzania)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: 64 96 52 00 (lydia.gaspare*at*umb.no)
Research topic: The effects of increased fishing pressure on the ecological resilience of targeted groupers (Serranidae) and analysis of impacts on livelihoods in fishing communities of Mafia Island, Tanzania.
Supervisor(s): Ian Bryceson and Dr. Albogast Kamukuru (Univ. of Dar es Salaam)
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Marianne Karlsson (Sweden)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 / 22 85 87 50 (marianne.karlsson*at*umb.no)
Research topic: The effects of climatic and other forces of change on livelihoods in coastal communities of Belize, Central America.
Supervisor(s): Ian Bryceson and Nadarajah Shanmugaratnam (Noragric), Ilan Kelman ( CICERO)
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Abda Khalid (Pakistan)
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (abda.khalid@umb.no)
Research topic: Exploring Gender-Based Insecurities in Relation to Livelihoods and Changing Class Relations in Post-Militancy, Post-Flood Swat
Supervisor: Ingrid Nyborg
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Kashif Saeed Khan (Pakistan)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 53 43 (kashif.khan*at*umb.no )
Research topic: Development discourses, security and livelihood realities in Pakistan’s North Western territories.
Supervisor(s): Ingrid Nyborg and Espen Sjaastad
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Helene Lie, (Norway)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 53 40; mob 994 59 122 (@umb.no)
Research topic: Identifying and replicating sustainable local food value chains in developing countries to improve smallholder's livelihood and food security
Supervisor(s): Gry Synnevåg
> Curriculum vitae (presentation at Noragric Internet)
> Publications

Sayuni Mariki (Tanzania)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (sayuni.mariki*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Participatory aspects of Enduimet Wildlife Management Area and Kilimanjaro National Park in villages on the western slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Supervisor(s): Tor Arve Benjaminsen and Hanne Svarstad (NINA)
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Jason Miklian (USA)
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 / 22 54 77 74 (jason.miklian*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Green Mining, Displacement and the Maoist conflict in India
Supervisor(s): Stig Jarle Hansen
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Victoria Moshy (Tanzania)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: 64 96 53 43 (victoria.moshy*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Socio-ecological Changes in the Livelihoods of Fishing Communities in the Current Epoch of Globalisation: A Case of Mafia Island, Tanzania.
Supervisor(s): Ian Bryceson, Knut Nustad and Rose Mwaipopo (Univ. of Dar es Salaam)
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Joseph Perfect Mrema (Tanzania)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: 64 96 52 00 (joseph.mrema*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Opportunities and challenges of linking forest conservation and livelihoods in community based forest management: The case of Duru- Haitemba Forest Reserve.
Supervisor(s): Tor Arve Benjaminsen and Espen Sjaastad
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Devota Mwaseba (Tanzania)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Research topic: Outcomes of Milk-Based Interventions: Improvements in Health and Nutritional Status of Under-five Children in Rural Tanzania?
Supervisor: Randi Kaarhus and Lars Olav Eik
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Sigrid Nagoda (Norway)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: 64 96 52 00 (sigrid.nagoda*at*umb.no)
Research Topic: The effects of humanitarian interventions on climate vulnerability- repeated food distribution and seed security in North Western Nepal
Supervisor(s): Siri Eriksen, Ingrid Nyborg and Louise Sperling
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Mary Gorett Nantongo (Uganda)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: 64 96 52 00 (mary.nantongo*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation; Impacts on rural populations in Uganda
Supervisor(s): Arild Vatn
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Amos Robert Ngwira (Malawi)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: 64 96 53 43 (robert.ngwira*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Evaluation of options to adapt the principles of Conservation Agriculture to the conditions of smallholder farmers in Malawi. (summary)
Supervisor(s): Christian Thierfelder (Conservation Agriculture Specialist working for International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) based in Harare), Jens Aune, Fred H. Johnsen and Bishal Sitaula
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Ansha Yesufe Nure (Ethiopia)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: 64 96 55 13
Research Topic: Household Food Security in Southern Rift Valley of Ethiopia: A Gendered Analysis
Supervisor(s): Gry Synnevåg
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Christin Marsh Ormhaug (Norway)
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Phone: 64 96 52 00 (christin.ormhaug*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Health effects of civil war
Supervisor(s): Espen Sjaastad, Henrik Urdal (NUPI), Håvard Hegre (PRIO), Ingrid Nyborg
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Raymond Achu Samndong (Cameroon)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (raymond*at*samndong; rayasboy*at*yahoo.com)
Research topic: Governing REDD+: The potential for reduced forest carbon emission, biodiversity protection and enhanced rural livelihoods in the Congo Basin Forest.
Supervisor(s): Arild Vatn
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Ellen Stenslie (Norway)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 53 40 (@umb.no)
Corporate social responsibility, the benefit corporation and social entrepreneurship as new models for private environmental governance; Motivation, legimaticy and outcome
Supervisor: Arild Vatn
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Frode Sundnes (Norway)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 61 50 (frode.sundnes*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Actors & Discourses: Conflicting Claims to the Dukuduku Forest,Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa.
Supervisor(s): Knut Nustad, Tor Arve Benjaminsen and Espen Sjaastad
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Kjersti Thorkildsen (Norway)
Research Fellow - Environement and Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (kjersti.thorkildsen*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Between conservation and development: Quilombola communities’ struggle over resources in the Ribeira Valley, Brazil.
Supervisor(s): Randi Kaarhus and Ian Bryceson
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Leif Tore Trædal (Norway)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 55 13 (@umb.no)
Land tenure and REDD: A comparative study of perceived and empirical linkages between land tenure and forest management
Supervisor:..............................
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Jennifer Joy West (Canada)
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 / 22 85 87 73 (jennifer.west*at*umb.no /j.j.west@cicero.uio.no)
Research topic: Climate change and agricultural development in Tanzania: actors, strategies, and discourses
Supervisor (s): Ruth Haug and Siri Eriksen
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

Ognjen Zurovec Bosnia Herzegovina
Research Fellow - Environment and Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 55 13 (ognjen.zurovec@umb.no)
Research topic: Investigating agricultural practices and local knowledge for Agricultural adaptation to climate changes in Western BalkanSupervisor: Bishal Sitaula
Supervisor (s): Bishal Sitaula and Gry Synnevåg
> Curriculum vitae
> Publications

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ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
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• EDUCATION and RESEARCH

Ingunn Andersen, M.Sc.
Senior adviser, PhD coordinator and Research support
Phone: +47 64 96 53 12 (ingunn.andersen*at*umb.no)
> Curriculum vitae

Ingunn Bohmann, M.Sc.
Adviser, Study Coordinator (Master programmes)
Phone: +47 64 96 53 31 (ingunn.bohmann*at*umb.no)

Nicole Rezende Grynning, M.Sc.
Adviser, Study Coordinator (Bachelor Programme)
Phone: +47 64 96 53 30 (nicole.rezende*at*umb.no)

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Staff on extended leave:

- Josie Teurlings, M.Sc. (until June 2013)

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• ACCOUNTS & FINANCES

Susan Brosstad
Executive Officer, Accounting (80%)
Phone: +47 64 96 53 02 (susan.brosstad*at*umb.no)

Sidsel Ø. Gulbrandsen
Adviser, Finance Manager
Phone: +47 64 96 53 14 (sidsel.gulbrandsen*at*umb.no)

Anna Holm
Executive Officer, Accounting
Phone: +47 64 96 53 11 (anna.holm*at*umb.no)

Herbjørn Hovin
Adviser/Accounts and Finances
Mon-Thu (6 Nov 2012 - 30 Sep 2013 on an hourly basis)

Anne Kiøsterud
Adviser, Personnel and Planning Manager
Phone: +47 64 96 53 10 (anne.kiosterud*at*umb.no)

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• INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

- LIBRARY

Liv Ellingsen (employed at UMB Library)
Senior librarian
Phone: +47 64 96 53 08 (liv.ellingsen*at*umb.no)
Library: http://www.umb.no/noragric/library

Hilde Kristin Langsholt (employed at UMB Library)
Librarian
Phone: +47 64 96 53 08 (hilde_kristin.langsholt*at*umb.no)

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Joanna Boddens-Hosang
Senior Adviser - Communication (50%)
Phone: +47 64 96 50 92 (joanna.boddens-hosang*at*umb.no)

Anders Dysvik
ICT
Phone: +47 64 96 50 13 (anders.dysvik*at*umb.no)

Evy Jørgensen, PhD
Adviser (Web)
Phone: +47 64 96 53 03 (evy.jorgensen*at*umb.no)

Jayne P. Lambrou, MSc
Adviser
Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (jayne.lambrou*at*umb.no)

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Per Stokstad
Executive Officer (50%)
Phone: +47 64 96 53 06 (per.stokstad*at*umb.no)

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Published: 11.12.08
Updated: 13.05.13
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Fax: +47 64 96 52 01
E-mail: noragric@umb.no

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P.O. Box 5003
NO-1432 Aas
Norway

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Universitetstunet 1 (Tivoli)
NO-1432 Ås

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