Bertil Tungodden#
| Membership Number: | 7136 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Affiliated section(s): | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
| Homepage(s): | https://sites.google.com/view/bertiltungodden/home |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4182-8491 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - present Research Director, FAIR - Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and Rationality - Centre of Excellence awarded by The Research Council of Norway
- 2016 - present Research Chair Professor, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
- 2002 - present Professor, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
- 2011 - present Research Director, The Choice Lab1999–present- Associated Senior Researcher, Chr. Michelsen Institute
- 2013 - present Associated Researcher, Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health, a research centre
- funded by the Research Council of Norway as a Centre of Excellence at the University of Bergen
- 2007 - present Associated Researcher, Centre of Equality, Social Organization, a research centre funded by the Research
- Council of Norway as a Centre of Excellence at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo
- 2007 - 2009 Chairman of the Norwegian Scientific Council for Economics
- 2005 - 2009 Head of Department, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
- 1995 - 2002 Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
Fields of Scholarship
- Distributive justice
- Social choice theory
- Behavioral economics
- Political philosophy
- Experimental economics
- Welfare economics
- Development economics
Honours and Awards
- 2025 ERC Ambassador
- 2025 Mercartor Fellow, Humboldt University, Berlin
- 2019 - 2025 Einstein Visiting Fellow, Humboldt University, Berlin
- 2018 ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (2.5 million Euro)
- 2017 Centre of Excellence (Research Director), The Research Council of Norway
- 2016 Research Excellence Grant (Toppforsk) from The Research Council of Norway (22 million NOK)
- 2015 Norwegian Academy of Sciences (Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi), elected member
- 2013 National award for outstanding quality in teaching (NOKUT Utdanningskvalitetsprisen 2013, Ministry of Education and Research, Norway - the award also comes with a grant of 1 million NOK to NHH Norwegian School of Economics; together with Alexander W. Cappelen)
- 2013 The student prize for excellence in teaching in the bachelor programme at NHH Norwegian School of Economics (Bronsesvampen; together with Kjetil Bjorvatn).
- 2011 Prize for excellence in teaching at NHH Norwegian School of Economics (together with Alexander W. Cappelen)
