Knut Anton Mork earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977. Upon work as a Research Associate at the M.I.T. Energy Laboratory from 1977 to 1981, he served on the faculties of the University of Arizona from 1981 to 1983 and the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University from 1983 to 1990. In 1992 Mork was appointed full professor at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo.
In 1996 he became Chief Economist for Norway for Handelsbanken. He served in this position until retirement in 2016. He is currently teaching macroeconomics and finance at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU).
In 2016, he headed a government-appointed committee to assess the strategic asset allocation of the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund.
Mork’s research has been published in journals, such as the Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic and Business Statistics, and The Energy Journal. He also has written several textbooks in English and Norwegian.
