Biography
"Yo no busco, yo encuentro", Pablo Picasso
Trond is a leader, author, entrepreneur and academic, currently the Director of Standards strategy and policy for Oracle Corporation. He recently published the management book Leadership From Below. His multi-sector background, includes experience from the public sector, the private sector, as well as from academia, and the NGO community. He was a Senior Advisor for the Norwegian Government, on loan to the European Commission. He was also a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Formerly he was the Project Manager on software policy at the Norwegian Board of Technology, as well as a Visiting Fellow at UC Berkeley in California. Trond has co-founded several start-ups, including a think tank (www.liblab.no), and his own consulting firm. Trond is fluent in English, Italian, Norwegian, and French, and conversant in Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian. He is a popular speaker at international events. Trond obtained his Ph.D. (2002) in Technology Studies and Sociology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
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