Gunnar Sander
Senior adviser
- Coordinator for research on the Arctic Ocean in the Fram Centre
- Environmental governance in the Arctic Ocean
- Environmental Impact Assessments and Strategic Environmental Assessments in Svalbard and for the Barents Sea
- Environmental monitoring
- Radioactivity in Northern regions
- Coordination on the EU infrastructure project ENVINET 2000 – 2003
- Coordinator of the ”Transport- and Effects Programme” 1997-2004; a research programme on contaminants in the northern seas.
Career
- 2009 – present: Norwegian Polar Institute
- 2006 – 2009: Seconded national expert on Arctic environmental issues in the European Environment Agency in Copenhagen
- 1998 – 2006: Norwegian Polar Institute, Environmental Management Section. Situated in Longyearbyen 2003 - 04.
- 1989 – 1998: Municipality of Tromsø: Coordinator for environmental affairs and head of a project on integrated land-use – transport – environment.
- 1987 – 1989: Council for Studies on Nature and Environment, University of Oslo.
- 1983 – 1986: Municipality of Harstad
Education:
- 2008 - 2009: Master of Laws in Law of the Sea, Univ. of Tromsø
- 2004: The history of Svalbard - an introduction, UNIS, Longyearbyen
- 1986 – 1987: Social antropology, undergraduate course work, Univ. of Oslo
- 1983: Advanced courses in social economy (municipal economy, regional economy, political economy) and rural planning in developing countries, NTU, Trondheim
- 1977 – 1982: Norwegian Technical University, Trondheim (now NTNU). Diploma at Institute for Town- and Regional Planning on socio-economic impacts of petroleum activities in Northern Norway.