Staff - professional details incl. CVs

Alphabetical list of the employees

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MANAGEMENT

Head of Dept Prof. Ruth Haug Foto: E. Jørgensen

Professor Ruth Haug, Ph.D.
Head of Department, 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 . 
Publications

Kjell Esser, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Head of Education
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.
Publications

Nadarajah Shanmugaratnam, Ph.D.
Professor of Development Studies
Head of Research
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.
Publications

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SCIENTIFIC STAFF
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Jens B. Aune, Dr. Scient.
Researcher, Agro-ecologist 
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.
Publications

Tor Arve Benjaminsen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Phone: +47 64 96 55 16 (t.a.benjaminsen*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: Drylands, land tenure, environmental narratives, political ecology, environmental history.
Publications

Trygve Berg, Dr. Scient. 
Associate Professor
(trygve.berg*at*umb.no) 
Professional interests: genetic resources, sustainable production systems. 
Publications

Gunnvor Berge, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (gunnvor.berge*at*umb.no)
Professional interests:Social and environmental change, governance, public goods, multilateralism, globalization, environmental policy, drylands, coping strategies, pastoralism, the state, exchange theory, conflicts, including research on conflicts over natural resources, human rights, property rights, and interdisciplinarity.
Publications

Cassandra Bergstrøm, Ph.D.
Associate Professor (60%)
UMB's Group Research Leader for the "Health and Development" programme
Phone: +47 64 96 53 20 (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
Publications

Stein W. Bie, Ph.D. 
Researcher (40%)
Phone: +47 64 96 53 32  
E-mail: steinbie*at*online.no
Professional interests: research management, management of natural reseources, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, e-learning. 
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.
Publications

Bill Derman
Professor of Anthropology and African Studies (20%)
Michigan State University & Professor II, Noragric
Phone: +47 64 96 53 18; Cell: 90217113 (bill.derman*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: agrarian change, land and water reform, human rights, Southern and West Africa, resettlement.
Publications

Lars Olav Eik
Associate Professor (50%)
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.
Publications

Fred Håkon Johnsen, Dr. Scient.
Associate Professor 
Phone: +47 64 96 53 17 (fred.johnsen*at*umb.no) 
Professional interests: resource economics in development studies, project appraisal (cost benefit and cost effectiveness analysis), smallholder farmer development. 
Publications

Darley Jose Kjosavik, Ph.D.
University Lecturer
Phone: +47 64 96 55 12 (darley.kjosavik*at*umb.no)
Professional interests:
Publications

Randi Kaarhus, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Deputy Chair of Noragric Board
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.
Publications

Kjersti Larsen, Ph.D. 
Associate Professor/Visiting Fellow (20%)
Phone: +47 64 96 53 09 
E-mail: kjersti.larsen*at*khm.uio.no
Professional interests:
Publications

Thor S. Larsen, Dr. Philos. 
Researcher (60%)
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. 
Publications

Stein R. Moe, Ph.D.
Associate Professor (40%)
Phone: +47 64 96 53 21 (stein.moe*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: wildlife ecology, plant/animal interactions, spatial and temporal ecosystem dynamics, human wildlife relations, conservation issues.
Publications

Knut Nustad, PhD.
Associate Professor 
Phone: +47 64 96 53 33 (knut.nustad*at*umb.no) 
Professional interests: political anthropology, development discourses, poverty discourses, epistemology of policy, formal/informal organisation.
Publications

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. 
Publications

Gufu Oba, Dr. Philos.
Professor, Ecosystems Management 
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.
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.
Publications

Espen Sjaastad, Dr. Scient. 
Associate Professor
Phone: +47 64 96 55 11 (espen.sjaastad*at*umb.no) 
Professional interests:
Publications

Lars Sjøflot, Dr. Scient.
Professor emeritus
Phone: +47 64 96 53 28 (lars.sjoflot*at*umb.no) 
Publications

Frik Sundstøl, Dr. Scient.
Professor emeritus
Phone: 64 96 53 26 (frik.sundstol*at*umb.no)
Publications

Ola Syrstad, Ph.D. 
Professor emeritus 
Phone: +47 64 96 53 26 (ola.syrstad*at*umb.no) 

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.
Publications

Pål Vedeld, Ph.D. 
Professor 
Phone: +47 64 96 53 07 (pal.vedeld*at*umb.no) 
Professional interests: resource economics, planning and management, policy instrument analysis and use, conflicts, interdisciplinarity and the environment, peasant household adaptation, deforestation, institutions and land use, common pool resources (CPR). 
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.
Publications

Poul Wisborg, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Phone: +47 64 96 55 13 (poul.wisborg*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: political ecology, environmental history, human rights, land reform, natural resource management, institutional cooperation.
Publications

On extended leave:
> Cary Fowler, Professor. 2005-2010. FAO, Rome
> Gry Synnevåg, Associate Professor. 2004-2009. Norwegian Church Aid, Afghanistan

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PhD STUDENTS
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Ayana Angassa Abdeta
On 9th of October, Ayana Angassa successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations!
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 55 10 (ayana.angassa*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Bush encroachment as a process of landscape change in the Borana rangelands of Southern Ethiopia: Ecological and management assessments.
Noragric professional comptence area group: Biodiversity and natural resource management

Jawad Ali
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Office Pakistan: +92 0575 2867 
Research topic: Forest change in Baltistan region in Northern Areas of Pakistan: Perceptions, property rights and policies.
Noragric professional comptence area group: Rights, conflicts and resources

Kishor Atreya, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 53 29 (kishor.atreya*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Environmental and human health impacts of pesticide use in intensified Himalayan agriculture.
Noragric professional competence area group: Agricultural development and livelihood security

Bed Mani Dahal
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Research topic: Impacts of agricultural intensification on socio-economic conditions and implications for soil and water quality in mid-hill watershed of central Nepal.
Noragric professional competence area group: Agricultural development and livelihood security

Boku Tache Dida
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 53 29 (boku-tache.dida*at*umb.no) 
E-mail: bokutachedida@yahoo.com
Research topic: Environment and poverty linkages and local perceptions of poverty and poverty alleviations among Boorana Pastoralists in Southern Ethiopia.
Noragric professional comptence area group: Rights, conflicts and resources

Mohamed Guyo
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 53 21 (mohamed.guyo*at*umb.no)
Topic: Conflict, Islam and Politics in Somalia: The rise of the union of Islamic court.
Noragric professional comptence area group: Rights, conflicts and resources

Eirin Hongslo
Research Fellow - Development Studies 
Phone: +47 64 96 55 12 (eirin.hongslo*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Perceptions of landscape, environment and land reform among stock farmers. A case study from Namaqualand, South Africa.
Professional interests: land reform, political ecology, environmental history, natural resource management.
Noragric professional comptence area group: Rights, conflicts and resources

Hanne Haaland
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Phone: +47 73 80 16 14/73 80 17 65 (hanne.haland*at*nina.no)
Research topic: Land tenure, common property resources and local participation in tourism development (Mozambique).
Noragric professional comptence area group: Rights, conflicts and resources

Hussein Jemma Sheymo
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 53 24 (hussein.jemma*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Politics, Property Rights and Production in Arsi and East Shewa Zones, Ethiopia (1941-2004).
Noragric professional comptence area group: Rights, conflicts and resources

Zeinabu Khalif
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 53 20 (khalif.zeinabu*at*umb.no)
Research topic: The Transformation of Waso Booran Pastoral Production, Crisis and Recovery: An Assessment of Gender Roles, Land Rights and Poverty Alleviation.
Noragric professional comptence area group: Biodiversity and natural resource management

Elisabeth Molteberg
Research Fellow - Development Studies 
Phone: +47 64 96 53 21 (elisabeth.molteberg*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Farmers first: Participatory knowledge generation in Ecuador.
Noragric professional comptence area group: Rights, conflicts and resources

Charlotte Nakakaawa
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Research topic: Forest Carbon Sequestration: Contribution of the Private, Public and Civil Societies to Poverty Alleviation and Management of Forest Resources in Uganda.
Noragric professional competence area group: Agricultural development and livelihood security

Christin Ormhaug
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (christin.ormhaug*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Health Consequences of Civil War.
Noragric professional comptence area group: Rights, conflicts and resources

Simon Pahle
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 5339 (simon.pahle*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: Human rights in the global political economy; WTO and IFIs; corporate social responsibility; conditionality and democracy promotion in ethnically divided polities.
Research topic: After Doha: Bringing the Rights Back In? A strategic Choice Exploration of Prospects for a Social Clause in the WTO, Identifying Enabling Modalities by Mapping Stakeholder Positions in Indian and Brazilian Agriculture.
Noragric professional comptence area group: Rights, conflicts and resources

Jon Geir Petursson
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 53 22 (jon.petursson*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Transboundary Biodiversity Management Challenges: The Case of the Protected Areas on Mt. Elgon in Uganda and Kenya.
Noragric professional competence area group: Agricultural development and livelihood security

Hassan Guyo Roba
Research Fellow - Development Studies 
Phone: +47 64 96 53 29 (hassan.guyo-roba*at*umb.no) 
Research topic: Integration of ecological and indigenous knowledge assessments of long term environmental changes in and around settlements in two arid and sub humid rangeland sites in Northern Kenya.
Noragric professional comptence area group: Biodiversity and natural resource management

Abebe Seifu Weldetsadik
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 53 29 (abebe.seifu*at*umb.no)
Professional interests: conflict management, co-management, and institutions.
Research topic: Conflict Management over the Contested Forest resources: the case of Munesa Shashemene Forest Industry Enterprise (MSFIE), Ethiopia.
Noragric professional competence area group: Agricultural development and livelihood security

Frode Sundnes
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (frode.sundnes*at*umb.no)
Research topic:: Land reform and conservation in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
Noragric professional comptence area group: Rights, conflicts and resources

Ayele Tessema Jufare
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (ayele.tessema*at*umb.no)
Research topic:: Household livelihood adaptation in a high population density area in Ethiopia: The case of Wolaita Zone.
Noragric professional comptence area group: Rights, conflicts and resources

David Mwesigye Tumusiime
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (david.tumusiime*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Dependence on environmental income by households around Rwenzori Mountain National Park, western Uganda.
Noragric professional competence area group: Agricultural development and livelihood security

Waktole Tiki Uma
Phone: +47 64 96 53 29 (waktole.uma*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Forces of cultural landscape change related to the ancient Tula Wells ecosystem in Borana Southern Ethiopia: A Social Environmental History 1880-2005.
Noragric professional comptence area group: Biodiversity and natural resource management

Hege Wallevik
Research Fellow - Development Studies 
E-mail: hege.wallevik*at*agderforskning.no
Research topic: Transgressing Economic Boundaries: Gender, Commodification and Social Change in Zanzibar.
Noragric professional comptence area group: Rights, conflicts and resources

Shushan Ghirmai Woldu
Research Fellow - Development Studies
Phone: +47 64 96 55 13 (shushan.ghirmai*at*umb.no)
Research topic: Effects of land use change on carbon sequestration in the acid upland agroecosystem of the Philippines.
Noragric professional competence area group: Agricultural development and livelihood security

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NON-SCIENTIFIC STAFF
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On extended leave:
- Josie Teurlings, Higher Executive Officer (leave until 01.09.2008)
- Lars Øimoen , ICT (leave until 15.10.08)
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- SUPPORT STAFF

Ingunn Andersen, M.Sc.
Advisor, Study Coordinator (Master's students) 
Phone: +47 64 96 53 31 (ingunn.andersen*at*umb.no) 

Ingrid Ohna, M.Sc.
Executive Officer
Trainee for Research and Education Assistance
Phone: +47 64 96 53 05 (ingrid.ohna*at*umb.no)

Kjersti Thorkildsen , M.Sc.
Higher Executive Officer, Study & Research Coordinator
Phone: +47 64 96 53 41 (kjersti.thorkildsen*at*umb.no)

Josie Teurlings, M.Sc.
Higher Executive Officer (leave until 01.09.2008)
Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (josie.teurlings*at*umb.no)

Mariela Covault Tyrihjell, M.Sc.
Executive Officer (70%)
Phone: +47 64 96 52 00 (mariela.tyrihjell*at*umb.no)

- Accounts and finances

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

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

Peter Bjørn Nielsen
Executive Officer, Accounting 
Phone: +47 64 96 53 11 (peter.b.nielsen*at*umb.no) 
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- INFORMATION MANAGEMENT STAFF

-- Library

Ingeborg Brandtzæg
Librarian 
Phone: +47 64 96 53 08 (ingeborg.brandtzag*at*umb.no) 
Library: http://www.umb.no/noragric/library

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

-- Information & ICT

Joanna Boddens-Hosang
Communication Advisor (Informasjonsrådgiver) (40%)
Phone: +47 64 96 50 92 (joanna.boddens-hosang*at*umb.no)

Evy Jørgensen, Ph.D. 
Advisor 
Phone: +47 64 96 53 03 (evy.jorgensen*at*umb.no)

Anne-Marthe Leinebø
ICT
Phone: +47 64 96 50 13 (anne-marthe.leinebo*at*umb.no) 

- Internal services

Torunn Lindstad
Executive Officer: Reception and Archives (60% position)
Phone: +47 64 96 53 15 (torunn.lindstad*at*umb.no) 

Per Stokstad
Executive Officer (40% position)
Phone: +47 64 96 53 06 (per.stokstad*at*umb.no)
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>> GUESTS

Mohamed Bukenya
Fredskorpset participant
Phone: +47 64 96 53 40 (mohamed.bukenya*at*umb.no)

Nani Raut
Fredskorpset participant
Phone: +47 64 96 53 40 (nani.raut*at*umb.no)

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