About

I work on the social effects of technology, and on the conditions that let journalism survive. My path ran from studies, with music and journalism on the side, into research, then policy, and now to a foundation that lets me combine my interests. I took a PhD at Cambridge on how Norway’s newspapers weathered the shift from print to digital; the question that carries into my work today is whether they can weather artificial intelligence. The through-line is the economics that fund journalism, and what happens to democracy when they fail.

At Fritt Ord, the Norwegian foundation for freedom of expression, I work on democracy, media, and technology. Before that I led the think tank Langsikt’s work on AI policy, and I spent four years as a researcher at NHH’s Centre for Applied Research (SNF), the school I had dropped out of a decade earlier. I am also programme director of NHH Executive’s Nordic Media Programme and an affiliated researcher at Cambridge, I write for Aftenposten, and I comment regularly in the national press. My roles, education, and board work are listed below.

Positions

• 2026 –Project lead, The Fritt Ord Foundation
• 2025 –Programme director, Nordic Media Programme, NHH Executive
• 2024 –Affiliated researcher, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
• 2023 –Columnist, Aftenposten
• 2018 –Consultant, public speaker, and lecturer (UiO, NHH, UiB, HVL, NHH Executive, and others)
• 2025 – 2026Senior adviser, Langsikt – Centre for Long-Term Policy
• 2022 – 2025Researcher, SNF – Centre for Applied Research, Norwegian School of Economics
• 2024Visiting researcher, COMPAS, University of Oxford
• 2019Journalist, NRK
• 2016Journalist, Bergens Tidende
• 2015 – 2017Journalist and columnist, Stoff Magasin
• 2012 – 2016Recording and touring musician
• 2010Intern, The French Ministry of Culture

Education

• 2018 – 2023PhD, Sociology, Jesus College
  University of Cambridge
• 2017 – 2018MPhil, Sociology, Wolfson College
  University of Cambridge
• 2014 – 2017BA, Media studies
  University of Bergen
• 2012 – 2016BA, Organisational psychology
  University of Bergen
• 2011 – 2012Economics and business administration
  NHH Norwegian School of Economics (one year)
• 2008 – 2010International Baccalaureate
  UWC Atlantic College, United Kingdom

My PhD was funded by the Cambridge Trust and my MPhil by the Aker Scholarship. I have also held guest research stays at the University of Bergen (Media Use, 2020–21) and the University of Oslo (POLKOM, 2019–20).

Boards and committees

• 2025 – 2026Board member, Foreningen Ballade
• 2024 – 2026Board member, Kommunal Rapport AS
• 2021 – 2026Member, academic committee for media research, Norwegian Media Authority
• 2023 – 2025Deputy board member, Samfunns- og næringslivsforskning AS
• 2019 – 2021Board member, United World Colleges Norway
• 2018 – 2020Leader, Cambridge Technology and New Media Research Cluster
• 2017 – 2018Board member, Stoff Magasin
• 2013 – 2015Board chair, The Board of Culture
• 2012 – 2013Board member, Bergen Student Society