CMI Staff
Kari Heggstad
Thematic research group:
Public Sector Reform
Keywords:
Natural resource management, entrepreneurship, donor coordination, HIV&AIDS, capital flight
Geographic keywords:
Sub-Saharan Africa
Botswana, South Africa
Project Coordinator
E-mail: kari.heggstad@cmi.no
Phone: +47 47938155
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Kari Heggstad is currently working as a Project Coordinator for U4 and as a researcher on various projects at CMI. In March 2009 she returned to CMI after 12 months as a researcher at Botswana Institute of Development and Policy Analysis (BIDPA). Through commissioned studies and independent research she gained knowledge about donor coordination, HIV/AIDS organisations, entrepreneurship in Botswana and peace building efforts in Southern Africa.
Heggstad holds a Master degree in Comparative Politics from the University of Bergen. Her master dissertation was on natural resource management in Chad and Nigeria with the title ‘How Did It All Start? A Comparison of the Establishment of the Oil Industry in Nigeria and Chad'.
Other Master Courses were ‘Chinese Politics and Society' at the Fudan University in Shanghai and ‘Entrepreneurship in South Africa' at Wits Business School in Johannesburg. In addition she has two years of International Marketing from BI - Norwegian School of Management.
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Current and recently completed projects:
Linking procurement and political economy
Start: Feb. 2010 (Current)
Keywords: procurement, political economy analysis
Review of Training for Peace
Start: Dec. 2009 (Current)
Keywords: Peacekeeping, AU, SADC, training
The Basics of Integrity in Procurement. A Guidebook
Start: Nov. 2009 (Completed)
Keywords: procurement, corruption, development aid
Capital flight and the banking sector
Start: Oct. 2009 (Completed)
Keywords: capital flight, illicit financial flows, tax havens, corruption, banks
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Publications by category:
CMI Reports
Promoting defence management and security sector reform in Southern Africa. An assessment of SADSEM's achievements, impacts and future challenges
Tjønneland, Elling N., Chris Albertyn, Garth le Pere, Kari Heggstad and Brendan Vickers (2009)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2009: 8) 82 p.
Theses
How Did it all Start? A Comparison of the Establishment of the Oil Industries in Nigeria and Chad
Heggstad, Kari (2008)
Master Thesis in Comparative Politics. Bergen: The University of Bergen. Department of Comparative Politics. 110 p.
