Håkon Otneim Professor of Statistics
NHH · Bergen · Since 2016

Curriculum Vitae

Professor of Statistics at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). Download full PDF↗

Appointments

2025– Professor, Department of Business and Management Science, NHH

2020–2025 Associate Professor, Department of Business and Management Science, NHH

2016–2020 Assistant Professor, Department of Business and Management Science, NHH

2012–2016 PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen

Education

2012–2016 PhD in Statistics, University of Bergen — advisor: Prof. Dag Tjøstheim

2010–2012 MSc in Mathematical Statistics, University of Bergen

2007–2010 BSc in Mathematics, University of Bergen

Grants, scholarships & awards

2026 Excellent Teaching Practitioner (Merittert Underviser), NHH

2022 The first Inspirational Teaching Award at NHH

2022 NHH Bachelor Students’ teaching award, “Bronsensvampen”

2020 NHH Bachelor Students’ teaching award, “Bronsensvampen”

2020– Researcher and partner, Climate Futures (SFI), Research Council of Norway, #309562

2019–2024 Researcher, Statistical modelling and inference for (high-dimensional) financial data, Finance Market Fund, #309218

Research visits

2025 Roma Tre University, Rome — host: Prof. Francesco Lagona

2015 Monash University, Melbourne — host: Prof. Jiti Gao

Service

2026–2029 Elected Teaching Responsible, Department of Business and Management Science, NHH

2021–2029 Elected member of the department board, NHH (tenured scientific staff)

2024– Auditor, Norwegian Statistical Association

2023–2025 Program director, NHH Bachelor of Business, Economics and Data Science (BEDS)

2022–2023 Chair of the working group developing NHH’s BEDS bachelor programme

2020–2022 Reference group, NHH Bachelor of Economics and Business Administration

2019–2020 Elected member of the NHH board (non-tenured scientific staff)

Pedagogical training

2020 Case Writing Workshop, Harvard Business School

2019 Global Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning, Harvard Business School

2019 Course in Pedagogy — Teaching Portfolio, NHH

2018 Basic Course in Pedagogy, Modules I & II, NHH

Supervision

I have supervised 26 master theses at NHH, involving 49 students. I was the primary PhD supervisor for Yue Shi (defended April 2025, Statistical modeling of climate risk in home insurance claims) and co-supervisor for Xuan Li (defended May 2024, Essays on Shareholder Engagement and Voting).

Reviewing

Colombian Journal of Statistics · Statistics and Probability Letters · European Journal of Operational Research · Econometric Reviews · International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics · Econometrics and Statistics · Medical Decision Making · Statistica Sinica · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B.

Computing & languages

Professional skills in R; basic skills in Python; LaTeX and Quarto. Norwegian (native), English (fluent).

Publications

See the full list of publications, or the PDF CV↗ for publications together with working papers.