Hasse Berntsen

Bio

Hasse Berntsen is a Communication Adviser and joined the Norwegian Centre for E-Health Research in February 2021. He has a professional background in journalism and communications, and trained as a journalist at what was formerly known as Norsk Journalisthøgskole in Oslo. In addition, he has studies in law, phonetics and linguistics from UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

He worked for several years as a journalist and news editor at TVNorge, Nyhetskanalen and TV 2.  He has international experience as Chief Press Information Officer with the international observer force TIPH in Hebron on the West Bank (Palestine). He also worked for 16 years as a communications adviser at the headquarters of the UN Association of Norway in Oslo disseminating information about the UN Labor Organization ILO. 

After moving back to his hometown Tromsø in 2017, he has also worked strategically and operationally with external and internal communications for NAV Troms and Finnmark (Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration) and at the University Library - UiT The Arctic University of Norway.