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, the corporate assembly of Norsk Hydro ASA 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”.