Robert G. Strand

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ABOUT ROBERT G. STRAND

Dr. Robert G. Strand is the Executive Director of the Nordic Center at UC Berkeley, Executive Director of the Center for Responsible Business, and a Lecturer at the Berkeley Haas School of Business. He is also an Associate Professor at the Copenhagen Business School. His research and teaching focus on comparing U.S. and Nordic approaches to sustainable business and examining American and Nordic varieties of capitalism with the aim of realizing sustainable capitalism. Robert teaches the suite of courses “Sustainable Capitalism in the Nordics?” which leverages his book Nordic Capitalism: Lessons for Realizing Sustainability Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, March 2026).Before joining Berkeley Haas in 2014, Robert was an Assistant Professor at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark, following a decade in Corporate America, where he held various roles in manufacturing, supply chain, marketing, strategy, and investor relations at IBM and Boston Scientific. He holds a Ph.D. in corporate social responsibility from the Copenhagen Business School, an MBA in international business from the University of Minnesota, and a B.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Wisconsin. He was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Norway based at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).With his wife, Sarah, he is the proud parent of two wonderful children, Jonas and Mikkel. He values a good sense of humor and kindness above all else, and when that obituary is eventually written, Robert hopes those qualities could potentially be said about him.