Kjell Arnold Eliassen

Kjell A. Eliassen, born 1946, is a professor of Public Management and director of the Centre for European and Asian Studies at BI Norwegian School of Management and professor of European Studies at The Free University in Brussels. He has been professor at University of Aarhus, Denmark and a visiting professor at several European, American and Asian Universities. He is also an honorary professor at the Fudan University in Shanghai and at the Jiaotong Xian University.

Research areas

Eliassen’s main fields of research are: telecommunications and information society politics, egovernment, globalisation and regional integration, public management and privatisation, regulation and industry development in Europe and Asia.

Eliassen has published 18 books and several articles on telecommunications, public management, defence industry and armament procurement, globalisation, the European Union and European and Asian affairs, as well as worked as a consultant for major firms, governmental agencies and ministries regarding these issues. His most recent books are: European Telecom Liberalisation (1999), which is in 2002 published in Chinese, and a new edition of Making Policy in the European Union (2001).

Lately, his focus has been on the new information society and egovernment. Eliassen is involved in several projects in this area and has wide range contact with both academics and bureaucrats in this field. He has previously been the project leader of several Nordic, European and Asian-European research projects.

Eliassen has developed several programs and courses on telecommunication regulation and strategy, information society and egovernment and is responsible for a new program in this field at BI Norwegian School of Management. He is currently co-directing a large project on corporatisation and privatisation of national telecommunications monopolies.

Activities in China/East Asia Eliassen has built up a part-time Master of Change Management program with Fudan and an Information industry management program for Ericsson representing BI Norwegian School of Management. He was the first chairman of the Nordic Centre at Fudan University.

He has been working closely with the Fudan University in Shanghai, Renmin University in Beijing and the Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, both within research and the development of management training programs. He has also earlier developed and run similar programs in the Central Europe. He is also, in cooperation with Renmin University, in charge of a Master of Public Administration “Training the trainers” program for professors involved in MPA programs at 24 Chinese universities. He is the editor of a new series of book in Chinese on Public Management.

Teaching areas

Course development and training programs: Eliassen has been developing and conducting seminars, workshops and advanced management training programs for banks, telecom companies and industrial firms on issues concerning strategy development, regulation and globalisation, regional integration and European Union issues.

Eliassen has been working as a consultant for major firms, governmental institutions and ministries in Europe and Asia in management development, regulation, privatisation, telecommunications, defence policy and industry.

ACADEMIC DEGREES

1971 University of Bergen Master Cand. Polit.

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 2001 - Present Jiaotong Xian University, Xian Advisory Professor
• 2000 - Present Fudan University, Shanghai Advisory Professor
• 1994 - Present Institut d'Etudes Européennes, Université Libre de Bruxelles Visiting Professor
• 1988 - Present BI Norwegian Business School Director, Center for European and Asian Studies
• 1981 - Present BI Norwegian Business School Professor
• 1994 - 1998 Facoltá di Scienze Politiche LUISS Rome Visiting Professor
• 1994 - 1994 CERI Paris Visiting Researcher
• 1993 - 1993 University of Siena Visiting Professor
• 1985 - 1989 BI Norwegian Business School Vice President
• 1981 - 1982 BI Norwegian Business School Director, Research Center
• 1980 - 1981 Ministry of Long Term Planning, Norway Deputy Director General
• 1972 - 1980 University of Aarhus Associate Professor
• 1979 - 1979 University of Aarhus, Department of Government Senior Research Fellow
• 1977 - 1977 Harvard University, Center for European Studies, Cambridge, Mass Visiting Research Fellow
• 1977 - 1977 University of California, Institute of International Studies, Berkely Visiting Scholar
• 1971 - 1972 University of Bergen Research Fellow

BOOKS

Stoknes, Per Espen; Eliassen, Kjell Arnold. 

Science based activism. Festschrift to Jørgen Randers. Fagbokforlaget 2015 (ISBN 978-82-450-1866-0) 318 p. BI

Bindi, Federiga; Eliassen, Kjell Arnold. 

Analyzing european union politics. Societa Editrice Il Mulino 2012 (ISBN 978-88-15-14716-5) 695 p. BI

Eliassen, Kjell Arnold. 

Business and politics in a new global order. Gyldendal Akademisk 2012 (ISBN 978-82-05-42590-3) 389 p. BI

Eliassen, Kjell Arnold; Bindi, Federiga. 

Analyzing European Union Politics. Societa Editrice Il Mulino 2012 (ISBN 978-88-15-14718-9) BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; Sitter, Nick. 

Understanding Public Management. Sage Publications 2008 (ISBN 9781412908580) BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; From, Johan. 

The Privatisation of European Telecommunications. Ashgate 2007 (ISBN 0754642607) BI

Andersen, Svein S.; Eliassen, Kjell A.. 

Making Policy in Europe (Chinese translation). : China Publishing House 2003 BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; Kooiman, Jan. 

Managing Public Organizations (Chinese translation). Berijing: National Institute of Public Administration Press 2003 BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; Marino, Marit Sjøvaag. 

Political Process and Technological Change in a Global Context: Government and Telecommunications Reform (translated into Chinese). Beijing, China: National Institute of Public Administration Press 2002 BI

Andersen, Svein S.; Eliassen, Kjell A.. 

Making Policy in Europe. London: Sage 2001 BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; Sjøvaag, Marit. 

European Telecommunications Liberalisation. London: Routledge(Routledge Studies in the European Economy) 1999 BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.(ed.). 

Foreign and Security Policy in the European Union. Sage Publications 1998 BI

SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES

Eliassen, Kjell A.; From, Johan. 

Deregulation, privatisation and public service delivery: Universal service in telecommunications in Europe. Policy & Society: Journal of public, foreign and global policy 2009 ;Volume 27.(3) p. 239-248 BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; Pedersen, Mogens N.; Kjær, Ulrik. 

Institutions matter - even in the long rund; on Representation, Residence Requirements, and Parachutage in Norway and Denmark. ? 2004 BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; Sitter, Nick. 

Ever Closer Cooperation? The Limits of the ‘Norwegian Method’ of European Integration. Scandinavian Political Studies 2003 ;Volume 26.(2) p. 125-144 BI

CHAPTERS

Eliassen, Kjell Arnold; Marino, Marit Sjøvaag; Peneva, Pavlina. 

The EU's climate and energy policy - A case study of the adoption of the climate change package in 2008. I: Science based activism. Festschrift to Jørgen Randers. Fagbokforlaget 2015 ISBN 978-82-450-1866-0. p. 159-180 BI

Eliassen, Kjell Arnold; Àrnadóttir, Agnes. 

Southeast Asian and European integration compared. I: European Union and New Regionalism: Competing Regionalism and Global Governance in a Post-Hegemonic Era. Ashgate 2014 ISBN 9781472434364. p. 223-245 BI

Bindi, Federiga; Eliassen, Kjell Arnold. 

The development of European integration studies in political science : : an introduction. I: Analyzing european union politics. Societa Editrice Il Mulino 2012 ISBN 978-88-15-14716-5. p. 13-22 BI

Bindi, Federiga; Eliassen, Kjell Arnold; Angelescu, Irina. 

Conclusions : towards European EU studies?. I: Analyzing european union politics. Societa Editrice Il Mulino 2012 ISBN 978-88-15-14716-5. p. 687-695 BI

Eliassen, Kjell Arnold. 

Conclusions: The global business environment. I: Business and politics in a new global order. Gyldendal Akademisk 2012 ISBN 978-82-05-42590-3. p. 353-365 BI

Eliassen, Kjell Arnold. 

Telenor in a Rapidly Changing Global Environment. I: Business and politics in a new global order. Gyldendal Akademisk 2012 ISBN 978-82-05-42590-3. p. 13-34 BI

Eliassen, Kjell Arnold; Árnadóttir, Agnes. 

Introduction : Telenor in a rapidly changing global environment. I: Business and politics in a new global order. Gyldendal Akademisk 2012 ISBN 978-82-05-42590-3. p. 13-33 BI

Eliassen, Kjell Arnold; Marino, Marit Sjøvaag; Bergmann, Eirikur. 

The study of the European Union from outside : European integration studies in Norway and Iceland 1990-2010. I: Analyzing european union politics. Societa Editrice Il Mulino 2012 ISBN 978-88-15-14716-5. p. 381-410 BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; Grøgaard, Birgitte. 

Internationalisation. I: Eliassen and From (eds), The Privatisation of European Telecommunications. Ashgate 2007 BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; Arnesen, Catherine Børve. 

Comparison Between European and Southeast Asian Integration. I: European Union and New Regionalism, Telo, Mario (ed.). Ashgate 2007 BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; From, Johan. 

Company Transformation - Corporatisation, Privatisation and Company Behaviour. I: The Privatisation of European Telecommunications, Kjell A. Eliassen and Johan From (eds). Ashgate 2007 p. 1-16 BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; From, Johan. 

Incumbent Company Transformation - How Far and Why. I: The Privatisation of European Telecommunications, Kjell A. Eliassen and Johan From (eds). Ashgate 2007 p. 257-268 BI

Pedersen, Mogens N.; Kjær, Ulrik; Eliassen, Kjell A.. 

The Geographical Dimesion of Parliamentary Recruitment: Theoretical considerations and Empirical Explorations. I: Democratic Representaion in Europe: Diversity Change and Convergence, Best, Heinrich and Cotta, Maurizio (eds). Oxford University Press 2007 BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; Pedersen, Mogens N.; Kjær, Ulrik. 

The Geographical Dimension of Parliamentary Recruitment - Among Native Sons and Parachutists. I: Best and Cotta (eds.): Democratic Representation in Europe: Diversity, Change and Convergence. Oxford University Press 2005 ISBN 978-0-19-923420-2. BI

Sitter, Nick; Eliassen, Kjell A.. 

The Quiet European: Norway?s Quasi-Membership of the European Union. I: P.Magnette (ed.): La Grande Europe. : Institut d'études européennes, Université de Bruxelles 2004 BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; Andersen, Svein S.. 

Lobbying in a World of Tensions. I: Steve John (ed.): New Activism and the Corporate Response. London: Palgrave 2003 BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; Monsen, Catherine Børve. 

Interest representation and Legitimacy in the European Union. I: S. Nagels (ed.): Policymaking and Democracy. : Lexington Books 2003 BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; Sitter, Nick; Monsen, Catherine Børve. 

The Governance of Telecommunications in the European Union. I: M. Campanella & S. Eijffinger (eds.): EU Economic Governance and Globalization. London: Edward Elgar 2003 BI

Andersen, Svein S.; Eliassen, Kjell A.; Sitter, Nick. 

Formal processes : EU institutions and actors. I: Making policy in Europe/Svein Andersen og Kjell Eliassen (eds.). London: Sage 2001 BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; Monsen, Catherine Børve. 

Comparison of European and Southeast Asian Integration. I: European Union and New Regionalism / Mario Telo (ed.). : Ashgate 2001 p. 111-134 BI

From, Johan; Andersen, Svein S.; Eliassen, Kjell A.. 

Policy on Justice and Home Affairs: From High to Low Politics. I: Making Policy in Europe. London: Sage 2001 BI

Andersen, Svein S.; Eliassen, Kjell A.. 

Democratic Modernity And Social Quality. I: Kunne ikke finne tidsskrift Walker, A. S.l.: S.l. 2000 BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; Marino, Marit Sjøvaag. 

Democratization and Parliamentary Elite Recruitment in Norway 1848 - 1996. I: Kunne ikke finne tidsskrift Cotta, Ma. Oxford University Press 2000 BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; Monsen, Catherine Børve. 

Comparison of European and Southeast Asian Integration. I: Kunne ikke finne tidsskrift Telo, Mar. S.l.: Ashgate Publishing 2000 BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; Monsen, Catherine Børve. 

Institutions and Networks: A comparison of European and Southeast Asian Integration. I: Elites, Parties and Democracy; Festschrift for Professor Mogens N. Pedersen. Odense, Danmark: Odense University Press 1999 BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; Monsen, Catherine Børve. 

Supranationalitè et legitimitè. I: De Masstricht à Amsterdam. Paris: Ètudes europèennes 1999 BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; Andersen, Svein S.; Claeys, Paul-H; Gobine, Corinne; Smets, Isabelle; Winand, Pascaline. 

EU-Lobbying: Towards Political Segmentation in the European Union?. I: Lobbyisme, pluralisme et intégration Européenne (Collection"La Cité européenne"), Series "European Policy" no 16. Brussels: Presses Interuniversitaires Européennes 1998 BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; Monsen, Catherine Børve; Glimstedt, Henrik; Lange, Even. 

Regional integrasjon - mangfoldige mønstre. I: Globalisering - drivkrefter og konsekvenser - BI årbok 1998. Fagbokforlaget 1998 BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; Catherine Børve, ukjent-for-g124643; Télo, Mario. 

La Légitimité en questions: Souveraineté et representation. I: De Maastricht á Amsterdam - L'Union européenne a la recherche de la légitimté. : 1998 BI

RESEARCH REPORTS

Eliassen, Kjell Arnold; Peneva, Pavlina. 

Norwegian Non-Governmental Actors in Brussels 1980 - 2010: Interest Representation and Lobbying. : Europautredningen 2011 (ISBN 9788293145080) 46 p. BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.. 

JSF - Flykjøp og industripolitiske strategier med spesiell vekt på Danmark og Nederland. Sandvika: Handelshøyskolen BI 2003 (1) BI

Sitter, Nick; Eliassen, Kjell A.. 

Norges deltakelse i Schengen Samarbeidet: vurderinger og anbefalinger. Sandvika: Handelshøyskolen BI 2003 (3) BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; Monsen, Catherine Børve; Sitter, Nick. 

From Sector Regulation to Competition? The Changing Governance of Telecommunications in the European Union. Sandvika: Handelshøyskolen BI 2002 (1) BI

Eliassen, Kjell A.; Monsen, Catherine Børve. 

La Légitimité en questions: Souverainité et represéntation. BI: Senter for Europeiske og Asiatiske studier 1998 (4) BI

Eliasssen, Kjell A.. 

Institutions and Networks: A comparison of European and South East Asian Integration. BI: Senter for Europeiske og Asiatiske studier 1998 (3) BI

Eliassen, Kjell Arnold. 

Den europeiske utfordringen. Fagbokforlaget 1995 (ISBN 8276741797) 382 p. BI