Audun has been with FAO since 1996, where he is a Deputy Director of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Division with responsibility for the technical area of value chains, market access, and trade. Audun served for many years as the Secretary of FAO’s COFI Sub-Committee on Trade, the main international body for discussion and recommendations on trade and market issues in the sector.

He has also served as the acting Secretary of COFI, FAO’s Technical Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture, and was for many years the Coordinator of the GLOBEFISH project.

His thematic work areas include commodity analysis, price trends and price indexes, global value-chain analysis, capacity-building in developing and transition countries, multilateral trade agreements, policy issues related to international trade and market access, market-based instruments, social responsibility, certification, traceability, trade and food security, and domestic and regional market development.

Before joining FAO, he worked as an independent agribusiness consultant, as a project manager at Norway’s Embassy in Italy, and as a financial analyst on the Oslo Stock Exchange.

Audun has a PhD in Agricultural Sciences from the Sea Fisheries Institute in Poland, a Master in Business Administration from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics.