Tina Søreide

Tina Søreide is (since February 2022) the Director General of the Norwegian Competition Authority, on leave from her position as Professor of Law and Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH).

Holding a PhD in economics and a post graduate specialization in law, her research focuses on corruption, governance and markets, with a particular emphasis on law enforcement. She was previously employed by the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen (UiB), the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and the World Bank, Washington DC. At NHH, she has been teaching masters and PhD courses on corruption, business climate challenges, corporate liability and law enforcement – and published broadly on the same themes. Søreide has been engaged in policy work for the Norwegian Government, the OECD, the EU, the World Bank, and development agencies. In Norway she takes active part in public debates and served until recently as a member of the Norwegian Political Parties Act Committee and the Norwegian Research Council’s Portfolio Board for Humanities and Social Sciences.

Her research is focused on corruption, governance, markets and development, currently with an emphasis on law enforcement. She has published extensively on corruption and governance, including several books – the latest being Corruption and Criminal Justice: Bridging Legal and Economic Perspectives (Edw. Elgar, 2016).  She is a member of the High Level Advisory Group on Anticorruption and Integrity (HLAG) to the Secretary General of the OECD.

In 2016 Tina Søreide won the 2017 best teacher prize for her master course “Corruption – Incentives, Disclosure and Liability”. This is a prize for excellent teaching at the master level at NHH, awarded annually by the students.