Directors

Lise Rakner

Acting Director

Professor of Political Science, Department of Goverment, University of Bergen

Siri Gloppen

Director (on leave November 2024 - July 2025)

Professor of Political Science (Department of Government) and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Bergen

Liv Tønnessen

Director

Senior Researcher at Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI)

Research and Project Leaders

Karina Ansolabehere

Fellow

Researcher of the Institute of Legal Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico

Leonardo Arriola

Fellow

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Onur Bakiner

Fellow

Assistant Professor of Political Science at Seattle University

Susan Banki

Fellow

Senior Lecturer, The University of Sydney

Paola Bergallo

Fellow

Professor, University of Torcuato Di Tella, in Buenos Aires

Jill Duerr Berrick

Fellow

Professor, School of Social Welfare and Center for Child and Youth Policy, UC Berkeley (USA)

Daniel M. Brinks

Fellow

Associate Research Professor, CMI; Professor and Department Chair, University of Texas at Austin

Andrea Castagnola

Fellow

Adjunct professor at the University Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires & Consultant on justice, the rule of law and transparency for the IADB and World Bank

Pilar Domingo

Fellow

Senior Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

Jackie Dugard

Fellow

Associate professor in the School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Kendra Dupuy

Fellow

Senior Researcher, Peace Research Institute Oslo

Jemima Garcia-Godos

Fellow

Associate Professor - Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo (UiO)

Matthew Gichohi

Fellow

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen

Bhavya Gupta

Global Fellow

PhD candidate at the Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. 

LaDawn Haglund

Fellow

Associate Professor,School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University

Marja Hinfelaar

Fellow

Director of Research and Programs at the Southern African Institute for Policy and Research (SAIPAR)

Maja Janmyr

Fellow

Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo

Juliana Jaramillo

Fellow

PhD candidate, Interdisciplinary Center of Development Studies, Universidad de los Andes

Thomas M. Keck

Fellow

Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University

Carl Henrik Knutsen

Fellow

Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo.

Vikram Kolmannskog

Fellow

Dr.Philos, Independent / Professor of Gestalt Therapy at the Norwegian Gestalt Institute

Katrin Kriz

Fellow

Professor, Emmmanuel College, Boston, USA

Jenny Krutzinna

Fellow

Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism