Anne Wenche Emblem

Anne Wenche Emblem is an Associate Professor at the School of Business and Law at the University of Agder. She holds a doctorate (Dr.oecon) in Economics from Norwegian School of Economics (NHH).

Emblem aspires to do research of high relevance to the society and she takes pleasure from collaborating with external partners in public and private sector. Emblem’s research interests are within the fields of real estate economics, housing, health and living arrangements. Also, she conducts research on health care financing and health economics.

Her research is published in scientific journals, such as Research in Economics,Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economic, International Tax and Public Finance and Journal of Property Research.

Emblem is head of the Center for Real Estate Economics,  and head of the research group Health Economics. She is chairman of  Sørlandet Boligbyggelag, and board member of Lillesand næringsareal AS, Agder Røde Kors and Forskerforbundet at UiA. She has been a board member of Kristiansand Næringsselsk, Faculty board of the School of business and Law UiA and Agder Forskning AS. She is a former member of the steering committee for Research based evaluation of the National Mammography Screening Programme in Norway (2007-15) and the government appointed committee suggesting a new financing system for financing regional health authorities in Norway (NOU 2008:2).

Emblem previously served as Senior Analyst at Oxford Research, Chief of Staff/Adviser at Sørlandet Hospital and she has worked for the United Nations in Rome. She was also a consultant at the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, and she has served as Research Assistant at the Centre for Applied Research at NHH.