Kjetil Bjorvatn has been a professor in economics since 2005. He received his PhD degree in economics from NHH in 1996. Bjorvatn is the leader of the FAIR Insight Team at the Centre of Excellence FAIR (Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality). He is a meber of the European Development Research Network (EUDN) and a JPAL affiliate.
Bjorvatn’s main research interests are in the fields of economic development and behavioral economics, focusing in particular on education, labour supply, and entrepreneurship. He has published extensively in journals such as Journal of the European Economic Association, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
Bjorvatn was Dean of the Bachelor programme at NHH in the period 2009-2015. He has won several teaching awards and was appointed Excellent Teaching Practitioner in 2021.