Gulf Research Meeting
Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen
Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen is the inaugural Barents Chair in Politics at the Department of Sociology, Political Science, and Community Planning at University of Tromsø-The Arctic University of Norway. He is also a senior researcher at the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University in Denmark. He is affiliated with the Public Diplomacy Collaborative at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, a member of the University of the Arctic’s thematic network on geopolitics and security, and the innovation and entrepreneurship research group at the Sino Danish Center at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Security & Development Policy in Stockholm. Rasmus studied political science at the Universities of Copenhagen, Iceland, Lausanne, Geneva and Amsterdam. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, during which time he was also a visiting Ph.D. candidate at Sciences Po. He was a research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School working on the soft power of American and French universities in the Middle East funded by the Danish Social Science Research Council, the Kuwait Program at Harvard (Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences), and the Dubai Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Subsequently, he was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science postdoctoral fellow at Tokyo Institute of Technology and United Nations University-Institute of Advanced Studies working on transnational higher education in the Middle East and East Asia. He taught European Studies and International Relations at Aalborg University before his current appointment. Rasmus’ fields of research include transnational flows of knowledge, ideas, talent and capital, historically and today, between academia, business, civil society and government in the USA, Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia. His research is published from the Dubai Initiative, in Strategic Insights, Foreign Policy Analysis, Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, Journal of China and International Relations, International Journal of Business and Globalisation, Global Society, PS: Political Science & Politics and Arctic Yearbook and in edited volumes from the University of Calgary Press, Yale University Press, Communication University of China Press, Edward Elgar Publishing, Palgrave Macmillan, Norden, Korea Maritime Institute, Sense Publisher.
