Haakon Vennemo, PhD and Professor, is an expert in environmental economics, energy economics and development issues, with a broad knowledge of macro and micro-economics in general. He has project experience from a large number of countries in Asia, Africa and Latin-America and is an experienced project manager as well as participant. In China he has a continuous project experience since 1996.

Haakon is also engaged in domestic Norwegian policy issues, where he primarily does economic analysis of policy suggestions of interest to the public and private sector; market analysis and evaluations. Energy, environment and welfare issues are important in his Norwegian portfolio, but he conducts work in a large number of areas. Haakon has taken part in several hundred policy research projects, and has been project manager in more than a hundred. He is also a very experienced quality controller.

Haakon Vennemo has strong academic credentials and about 40 publications in referee journals and books. He is Adjunct Professor of Economics at the Business School of Oslo Metropolitan University.