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Rune Engeset, Ph.D.
Survey Special Advisor
Consultant

Main Responsiblities

As the Survey Special Advisor, Rune is responsible for providing SAC with policy advice, analysis and field visits in support of SAC’s information management requirements. In addition, he advises the Executive Director on policy issues concerning the team management department of SAC, works with the Senior Technical Support Team in providing technical backstopping to country surveys, as well as ensuring that database standards are met and that information provided by the country teams is complete and accurate.

Background

Rune has 15-years of experience in the academic, governmental, humanitarian and commercial fields working in such places as Angola (1-1/2 years), Ethiopia, Iran, Norway, Thailand (1 year), the U.S. and Yemen. During this time, he displayed commendable leadership skills as a project manager, conducted fieldwork and data collection under extreme conditions, carried out socio-economic impact assessments, remote sensing and GIS research and consulting, local competence building and transfer, mine action and landmine surveys, hydrology, glaciology and climate change research and management, computer science, and IT and database system development.

Rune has a sweeping range of skills as he has been a consultant on a number of contracts carrying out work on GIS and database development. He was a lecturer at the University of Oslo, Gjøvik Technical College, and the University Studies at Svalbard from 1993 through 1996, and as well as a System Administrator at the University of Oslo from 1995 through 1996. Within the realm of mine action, he’s completed a number of laudable assignments. Between 1997 and 1998, he was the Survey Officer and Survey Project Manager for the Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA), Angola Landmine Survey, and from 2000 to 2001 was the Deputy Program Manger for the Thailand Landmine Impact Survey. He was also an Advisor on mine action missions, such as the NPA Iran Mine Action Program in 2001, the GLS/SWG method development, and the Ethiopia Advance Survey Mission in 2001.

Currently, he is a Research Scientist at Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, working on government, commercial and research projects in the fields of glaciology, climate change, remote sensing and information processing.

Education

Rune received his C.M. and his B.S. (with Honors) in Computer Science from the University of Oslo in Norway and the University of York in England, respectively, in 1989. In 1995, he received his M.S. in Physical Geography and, in 2000, his Ph.D. in Geography (specializing in satellite remote sensing, glaciology and climate change) from the University of Oslo in Norway.

All the rest

Rune, who is married and has two children, is a Norwegian citizen. He is fluent in Norwegian and English, and has some knowledge of Portuguese, Italian, Spanish and German.