Ole Nørgaard


  Program Director, Research Professor

We are deeply sorry to inform you that Project Manager, Professor  Ole Nørgaard recently passed away. It is a great loss to the project and to us personally. The Department's formal obituary can be found here.


Implementing the DEMSTAR research program in the CIS countries. 
Own research focuses on institutional theory, the workings of central governments, legal reforms, privatization of telecommunications and ECOFIN structures.

Phone: +45 89421334

Ph.D. (University of Copenhagen), 1986. Dr. H.C. (University of Latvia), 1995. Dr. of Political Science (University of Århus), 2001.

Ole Nørgaard has published on
the politics and economics of transformation in post-communist countries, on institutional theory and on Danish foreign policy. His recent publications include Economic Institutions and Democratic Reform, Cheltenham & Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2000; The Baltic States after Independence, Second revised edition, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1999 (with Lars Johannsen) and 'Development, Law and Democracy', chapter 6 in Ole Elgstrom and Goran Hyden (eds): Democracy and Development: Theoretical Gains and Challenges, London: Routledge, Forthcoming 2002 (with Karin Hilmer Pedersen).