Gunnar Bovim (born 2 February 1960) is a

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physician and civil servant. He has been the

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at the

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from August 1, 2013 to August 21, 2019. After that he will be working with policy matters related to education and research at NTNU and be of disposal to NTNUs top management.

Career

He hails from

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, and took his cand.med. degree at the

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in 1985. He took the

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degree at the

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in 1993 and became a specialist in

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in the same year. He worked at the University of Trondheim, later the

after a merger. He was awarded a research prize from the Norwegian Migraine Society in 1993, and received a Dr. Ragnar Forberg scholarship in 1995. He became chief physician and

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of neurology at NTNU's Faculty of Medicine in 1998, was vice

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from 1996 to 1998 and dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 1999 to 2005. He was also head of the medical technology strategic area at NTNU from 2000 to 2005. At the time, some held him as a good candidate for

, but Bovim rejected such a job offer twice. In the period 2001–2003 he was also a board member of the

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. He took a position as the deputy managing director of

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in Trondheim in 2005, and became managing director in 2006. He started as the

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of the

in 2009. He accepted the position as

at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in December 2012, and officially assumed the post on 1 August 2013. Bovim has been criticized and reprimanded by the Ministry of Knowledge for not being present in his job as Rector, and for pursuing too many appointments outside academia. He has also been criticized for his role in the "Eikrem-case" at NTNU.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bovim, Gunnar 1960 births Living people University of Bergen alumni Academic staff of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Rectors of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Norwegian neurologists Norwegian civil servants Directors of hospitals of Norway Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters