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Stein Tonnesson

Director
International Peace Research Institute in Oslo

Name

Stein Tonnesson
Job Title

Director
Organisation

International Peace Research Institute in Oslo

Field

Research
Speciality

Energy Security

Biography

Biography

Stein D. Tønnesson has been the director of the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo since 2001. An historian by training, he currently leads the institute’s Eastern Mediterranean project while pursuing several small scale projects on terrorism, regional stability in the Middle East and energy security and maritime conflict in Asia. Dr. Tonnesson has worked as Professor of of Human Development Studies at the University of Oslo and has also been a senior research fellow at the Nordic Institute for Asia Studies in Copenhagen. He has published several volumes related to his fields of study. Stein Tonnesson received his PhD in history from the University of Oslo in 1991. He is married to Norwegian historian Bodil Stenseth.