Additional affiliations: 
Scientific advisor to Norges Bank, elected Fellow at the International Association for Applied Econometrics, Ex-President and member of the Executive Committe for the Society for Non-linear Dynamics and Econometrics and Associate Editor for Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics. She is also a member of the Finnish Economic Policy Council, the Abel Prize Board and the Norwegian Government Commission appointed to assess the Financial Supervisory Act and activities.

Main research interests: 
Applied macroeconomics and time series. Special interests include business cycles, energy economics, commodity prices, and fiscal- and monetary policy. She has published papers in leading international journals, including American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Economic Journal, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics and Review of Economics and Statistics. She is also the co-author of the book: “Applied Time Series For Macroeconomics”.