Trondheim creative policy club

Pier Luigi Sacco, PhD, is Professor of Economic Policy, University of Chieti-Pescara, Interim Director of the Policy AP of EIT-KIC Culture and Creativity, Senior Advisor to the OECD Center for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions, and Cities, Associate Researcher at CNR-ISPC, Naples, and Affiliate Researcher at the metaLAB (at) Harvard. He has been Visiting Professor and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, and Special Adviser of the EU Commissioner to Education, Culture, Youth and Sport. He is a member of the scientific board of Europeana Foundation, Den Haag, of the Advisory Council on Scientific Innovation of the Czech Republic, Prague, and of the Foundation for the School of Cultural Heritage and Activities, Italian Ministry of Culture. He regularly gives courses and invited lectures in major universities worldwide. He works and consults internationally in the fields of culture-led local development and is often invited as keynote speaker in major cultural policy conferences worldwide. He has published more than 200 papers on international peer-reviewed journals and edited books with major international publishers.

Municipal Director of Culture and Sport, Trondheim kommune (from 2016). Master of Management, Organizational Development. 15 years as football coach at top level with RBK, Norwegian National Team and Ranheim. UEFA Pro License education. Senior Consultant Organizational Development at Avantas AS. 12 years as newspaper journalist, 2 years Managing Director NRK radio. Board Member Rosenborg BK 2013-2015.

Tor Grande is Pro-Rector for Research and Dissemination at NTNU. He was previously Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Head of Department of Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is a professor in Materials Chemistry/Science at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, since 1997 and was associate professor at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry 1994-1997 (NTH/NTNU). He has been a visiting scientist at NIRIM(NIMS) in Japan and University of Rennes and been on sabbatical leave at Northwestern University and EPFL.

Marianne Skjulhaug is presently Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Design at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU). She previously led the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO). Her research focuses on urban spatial planning and, more specifically, peri-urban conditions. She is trained as an architect, with years of experience in urban planning and urban design, from practice including The City of Bergen, Asplan Viak, and Norconsult. She was the Dean of The Bergen School of Architecture for five years; and a lecturer and an external examiner with several architectural institutions. Currently, she serves as the President at Europan Norway and a Board Member for Stiftelsen Asplan. Previously she held a position as an Advisory Board member at the School of Architecture, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and two periods as a board member at The National Association of Norwegian Architects. She has been a member of several juries, most recently the jury electing the new curator for Oslo Architecture Triennale 2019. She is also an active voice in the public debate on urbanism and city development. She has been a visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Urbanism at MIT.

Anne Kristine Børresen is Dean at the Faculty of the Humanities, NTNU. She is professor in modern history. Anne Kristine Børresen (born 1964) was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Humanities on 1 August, 2013. She is Professor of modern history and her research has primarily been focused on topics from Norwegian industry, technology and science history from approx. 1850 to approx. 1970. Børresen has the degrees of cand.philol. (1991) and dr.art. (1995) in history from the University of Trondheim (now: NTNU).She has been permanently employed at NTNU since 2004; first as Associate Professor, then as Professor since 2008.. From 2011 to 2013 she was Chair of the Programme Board for history at the Department of History and Classical Studies. Børresen has been an active participant in several of NTNU's interdisciplinary programs. She led one of the projects in the program Productivity 2005 funded by the Research Council. From 2004 she participated in the development and management of the Forum for the Knowledge of History. She has also helped build a national network of science history. Since 2009, the network has held annual international conferences in the history of science. She has been a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters since 2010. Børresen has been a member of two program committees in the Research Council of Norway (NFR): First in the social science program Public sector change (1999−2001), then in the Expert Committee for the Humanities (2007−2009). In 2010 she was also a member of the NFR planning committee that designed the project memorandum to the new initiative for the humanities and social sciences in Norway: Cultural conditions underlying social change (SAMKUL).