Nils Klim Prize 2013 awarded to Ingvild Almås

Associate Professor Ingrid Almås from NHH's Department of Economics is awarded the Nils Klim Prize for 2013.

13.03.2013 - Ed.

Chairman of the Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund, UiB Rector Sigmund Grønmo, announced the winners of the Holberg International Memorial Prize and the Nils Klim Prize in Bergen today (Wednesday,13 March).

The following is a citation from the Nils Klim Prize Academic Committee:

"In nominating Ingvild Almås for the Nils Klim Prize 2013, the Academic Committee has opted for a candidate who has a clear and exceptionally broad research profile.

Almås has published single authored papers on income inequality in the very top journals of the field, such as American Economic Review, being the first Nordic woman to publish a single-authored paper in this journal. She has recently co-authored (with leading colleagues) a paper on 'Development of fairness preferences in children' in Science.

A characteristic of the publication list is the motto: quality is more important than quantity. Thus the list is short but exquisite, and in addition to it, Ingvild Almås has 10 more papers in progress on further inequalities (most importantly gender).

She has also contributed to the development of experiments in economic research at NHH. It is undeniable that we have before us an exceptional young researcher.

The committee has nominated Ingvild Almås in the conviction that it is essential that the Nils Klim Prize be awarded to a candidate who is exceptional among her peers and who has already produced research at the highest international level.

She is also outstanding in addressing themes that demand the highest theoretical and methodological competence while demonstrating a sustained engagement with urgent human concern. It is evident that the various inequalities are a central fact of life which needs to be addressed on a global scale. Ingvild Almås is doing just that."

Ingvild Almås (born 1978) was educated at the University of Oslo and took her PhD at NHH.

She also studied at some of the most prestigious universities in the world (Cornell, University College Dublin, Oxford, Yale and Princeton), thus supplementing her Scandinavian outlook with an international one.

French anthropologist and sociologist Bruno Latour was awarded the Holberg Prize.

The winners will receive the prize at an award ceremony in Håkonshallen in Bergen, Norway on 5 June 2013.

The Nils Klim Prize amount is NOK 250,000 (EUR 34,000/USD 43,000), while the Holberg Prize amount is The Prize amount is NOK 4.5 million (EUR 610,000/USD 790,000).