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.