Andreas Østhagen / @andreasosthagen

Andreas Østhagen is currently employed as the acting director at the North Norway European Office in Brussels, responsible for communicating the interests of the N­orwegian Arctic to the European Union. He also serves as a senior fellow at The Arctic Institute, a Washington D.C.-based think tank. Previously he has worked on Arctic and security issues at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington D.C. as well as the Walter & Duncan Gordon F­oundation in Toronto. His research is primarily focused on mapping different actors and interests as the Arctic region develops, covering both natural resource exploration and international affairs. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) from the London School of Economics in European and international affairs, in addition to a joint Bachelor degree in political economy from the University of Bergen and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.