First meeting of NHH's Advisory Board

NHH's new advisory board consists of top executives from Norwegian and international business and academia. Tuesday they gathered for their first meeting.

06.03.2013 - Hallvard Lyssand

The members of the advisory board will assist NHH in reaching its ambitious goals by providing international perspectives in the fields of research, education and knowledge dissemination, as well as giving strategic advice.

The idea of establishing an advisory board comes from the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, and the aim is to strengthen ties between the business world and academia. The institutions were given fairly free reins in formulating a mandate and finding members for their advisory boards.

The NHH board chose to model the advisory board on similar councils at business schools abroad, and has found ten members from the higher echelons of both international academia and the Norwegian and international business world. NHH is represented by the Rector, the Managing Director and two students.

The Advisory Board is appointed for four years, and will meet once or twice a year.

They first gathered for a working dinner at Stupet on Monday evening. During their first meeting on Tuesday, the advisory board members were introduced to NHH and discussed the ongoing strategy process, research and education, and international and corporate relations, among other topics.

NHH's Advisory Board

Members from international business

• Stine Bosse, Board member and chair of several international companies
• Richard Milne, Nordic and Baltic Correspondent, Financial Times
• Jorma Ollila, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell Plc.

Representatives from international academia:

• Jean-Paul Larçon, Professor, HEC Paris and Honorary Doctor at NHH
• Kulwant Singh, Professor, National University Singapore

Representatives from Norwegian business

• Cecilie Blydt Heuch, Chief HR Officer, Det norske Veritas
• Idar Kreutzer, CEO, Finance Norway - FNO
• Erik Mamelund, Managing Partner Ernst & Young Nordic
• Siren Sundland, Director of Corporate Communications, Sparebanken Vest
• Gunvor Ulstein, CEO, Ulstein Group

Student representatives

• Madeleine Tennebekk
• Kristoffer Marø

NHH's new Advisory board met for the first time this week. The members were introduced to NHH and discussed the ongoing strategy process, research and education, and international and corporate relations, among other topics. Front row from right to left: Madeleine Tennebekk, Idar Kreutzer, Dean of NHH's master's programme, Kenneth Fjell, Siren Sundland, Cecilie Blydt Heuch, Deputy Rector Gunnar E. Christensen og Erik Mamelund. Second row from right to left: Kulwant Singh, Jorma Ollila, Rector Jan I. Haaland, Jean-Paul Larçon, Kristoffer Marø, Vice Rector Mette H. Bjørndal og Ole Hope. Stine Bosse, Gunvor Ulstein og Richard Milne were prevented from participating.