Meet the Team

John Moore is a Research Professor at the University of Lapland, Finland, and the Lead of the UArctic Thematic Network on Frozen Arctic Conservation. His main research activities relate to climate engineering, sea level change, and ice sheet dynamics. Moore is a Member of Finnish Academy of Science and Letters; he has been a member of 6 Antarctic, 4 Greenlandic and 20 Svalbard scientific expeditions; and he was the chief scientist on 2007-2009 International Polar Year project "Kinnvika". Moore has authored over 200 articles (~21000 citations, H-index=61, 19 articles published in PNAS & the "Nature" group).

Marianne Hagen is a former deputy minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway. She came to work with UArctic from the position of Executive Vice President of Aker Solutions, one of Norway's largest industrial companies delivering solutions, construction and services to the global energy industry. Marianne was Head of Communications at the Royal Court, and has worked as an advisor to the CEO of the Norwegian Shipowners Association. She has an extensive career in politics and as a board member of publicly listed companies. Within the Seabed Curtain project, Marianne is responsible for government relations and communications, as well as overseeing the engineering.

Ole Wroldsen is heading up the Ocean Technology research and development at Entr, the consultancy arm of Aker Solutions. He is a skilled naval architect and structural designer who through the last 20 years has been working towards structural design, software development, certification and realization of novel and innovating marine projects worldwide. Within all of his projects, his goal has always been to succeed with a “desirable realization of the impossible”. Yet, the most important challenges are all ahead of us: developing sustainable, renewable and positive energy production, transitioning from the carbon energy paradigm, reducing emissions, and combatting sea level rise.