Dr. Bente Torstensen is the CEO of Nofima, a leading Norwegian food research institute that conducts research and development for the aquaculture industry, the fishing industry and the food industry.
Dr. Torstensen has worked at Nofima as Division Director for Aquaculture since August 2017. Prior to that, she worked at Marine Harvest (now Mowi) and Norway’s National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research (NIFES). At NIFES she started as a Researcher before progressing to Senior Researcher, Research Manager and Research Director. She has a PhD in Nutritional Biology from the University of Bergen. She is also a graduate of Harvard Business School in Boston (Executive Education).
Torstensen is a member of the portfolio board of ocean industries under the Research Council of Norway, a board member of NCE Seafood Innovation Cluster, the Aquaculture Station in Tromsø and is the current Chair/President of the EAS (the European Aquaculture Society).
Dr. Torstensen will be speaking as part of the Enhancing Social License session on October 9th.