FFI board
The board is FFI's supreme body and is responsible for the institutes activities.
Aslak Tveito
Chair of the Board since 2021
Aslak Tveito is Director of Simula Research Laboratory (2002–) and professor of numeric calculations at University of Oslo (1994–). Tveito has previously been employed at Sintef. He has extensive experience in transnational research cooperation, in particularly with University of California, San Diego and Berkeley. His research is related to the study of heart cells based on numeric modelling. He is an active tutor for several PhD students and junior researchers.
Dag H. Stølan
Member of the Board since 2023
Dag H. Stølan is CEO of Space Norway, having advanced to the position from CSO of Security and Infrastructure. Stølan has vast experience from the Norwegian Armed Forces, and before joining Space Norway in 2017, he was Major General and Head of the Investments in the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency. Stølan has both military and civilian education, including from the Norwegian Military Academy and Army and Armed Forces staff colleges, as well as international studies.
Toril Nag
Member of the Board since 2023
Toril Nag is a graduate engineer in Computer Science and works as a Senior Partner in HitecVision, Norway's largest PE fund. Nag has more than 25 years of industry experience in technology and telecommunications businesses as well as finance. Until May 2023, she served as CEO in the industrial group Lyse in Stavanger, where she headed the Group's Telecom business area, which includes broadband operator Altibox, the mobile network operator ICE, and a number of fibre network providers. Nag has comprehensive board experience from energy and technology businesses, and she served as Chairman of the trade organisation IKT Norge from 2018 to 2022. She has also been a member of a number of government-appointed commissions and councils, including Digital 21, the Digitalisation Council (Digitaliseringsrådet), the Privacy Commission (Personvernkommisjonen) and the Productivity Commission (Produktivitetskommisjonen).
Anne Husebekk
Member of the Board since 2021
Anne Husebekk has served as rector of UiT, The Arctic University of Norway since 2013. Professor Husebekk is a physician by training (MD, specialist in immunology and transfusion medicine). She has extensive experience as a member and Chair of various boards, for example as Chair of the Board at UiT (2013–), Chair of the Board of the Centre for the Ocean and the Arctic (2018–) as well as Deputy Chair of the Board of the Norwegian Defence University College (NDUC) (2020–).
Gunnar Bovim
Member of the Board since 2021
Gunnar Bovim is educational and research political advisor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He has a medical background with a specialisation in neurology. Boivim has previously served as Rector at NTNU (2013–2019) and Director at Central Norway Regional Health Authority (2009–2013). He has a varied and extensive experience from various boards and committees, for example as Chair of the Board at NTNU Technology Transfer AS (2021–) and Chair of the Board at Innovation Norway (2018–).
Thor Engøy
Employee-elected member of the Board since 2019
Thor Engøy is a principal scientist at FFI. He joined FFI in 1995. Engøy has worked with measuring radioactive pollution and testing radiation detectors, and has extensive experience from military environmental cooperation. Engøy holds a PhD in physics from University of Oslo.
Hege Kristin Jødahl
Employee-elected member of the Board since 2023
Hege Kristin Jødahl has been an employee of FFI since 1993. She has done work on hardware development and programming of camera surveillance systems, and experiments with surveillance systems, as well as other projects. Hege served as project manager from 2003 until she advanced to Research Manager for the Ammunition research program in 2009. She has been a member of the Working Environment Committee (AMU) for several years, and she has been the leader of the committee for two periods.