Kristine M. Grimsrud

Kristine Grimsrud, PhD in Environmental and Resource Economics and an MSc in Statistics from Washington State University (2002), is a senior researcher (Research Professor level) in the Research Department at Statistics Norway, in the Group for Environmental, Resource, and Innovation Economics.

Her research focuses on nature, resources, environment, and climate, with particular emphasis on the valuation of ecosystem services and public preferences for the acceptance of climate and environmental policies. Valuation is conducted using national surveys as well as existing market data. She has 10 + years of experience with the UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (ecosystem accounting/natural capital accounting) and 5+ years of experience with ocean accounting. She serves as Co-Chair of the European Committee of Practice. She has also worked on topics in energy economics and bioeconomics.

Grimsrud both leads and participates in several Norwegian research council–funded projects related to climate and the environment. She has published more than 45 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and also publishes regularly in Norwegian-language journals. She was a member of the government-appointed Nature Risk Commission and of the expert committee on the socioeconomic analysis of climate change adaptation.

She has been affiliated with North American universities for 15 years as both a student and faculty member. After completing her PhD and MSc at Washington State University in 2002, she served as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Food and Agricultural Economics at the University of Guelph, Canada. She subsequently held a tenure-track Assistant Professorship in the Department of Economics at the University of New Mexico (UNM), Albuquerque, USA, and entered a tenured position as Associate Professor in 2011. She has 12 years of teaching experience at the undergraduate, graduate, and PhD levels.