Håvard Halland is a senior economist at the World Bank’s Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Global Practice, Investment Funds Group. His research and advisory work focus on sovereign wealth funds (SWF) and strategic investment funds. In particular, his work has focused on fund mandates, governance frameworks, as well as economic and policy implications of SWF's domestic investment.
Håvard is an author or joint author of academic and policy research papers, book chapters, magazine articles and blogs, and regularly presents at international conferences and seminars. He earned a PhD in economics from the University of Cambridge.