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Dr Nygaard is a Senior СŷÊÓƵ Teacher at the СŷÊÓƵ of Sheffield. He is also an Associate Professor with Oslo Business School at Oslo Metropolitan СŷÊÓƵ in his native Norway.

Nygaard’s primary expertise is finance, and his research focuses on asset pricing, corporate governance and individual investor trading behaviour. His recent honours include Best Postgraduate Lecturer award 2021. He has held research fellowships at Harvard СŷÊÓƵ, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), СŷÊÓƵ of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

In 2011, Nygaard earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics. Prior to his Ph.D., Nygaard was an Economist at Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) where he worked on several policy-related research projects, including projects commissioned by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Nygaard earned a graduate degree from the СŷÊÓƵ of Cambridge in 2003, and an undergraduate degree from Bayes Business School at City СŷÊÓƵ London in 2001.