DR. KJERSTI BUSCH.

CEO and CO-FOUNDER of SALT.

ORIGIN STORY.

GENDER IN BUSINESS.

ADVICE TO YOUNG WOMEN.

SALT.

SHIFTING BUSINESS CULTURE.

COMMUNICATING SCIENCE.

BIOGRAPHY.

Dr. Kjersti Eline T. Busch is one of the founders and the CEO of SALT. SALT is an independent consultant company with knowledge about and for the coast. Kjersti started SALT together with her co-founder Kriss Rokkan Iversen in 2010. Today the company has close to 20 highly educated staff, working from offices in the Lofoten islands in Northern Norway and in small offices in other Norwegian regions. Realizing the great opportunities in the Arctic region, with an emphasis on the marine environment, is SALTs core mission. One of the great motivators for Kjersti Eline T. Busch is to create knowledge based jobs in the Arctic region – preferably in the coastal communities.

These videos are a part of a series of interviews conducted at “Women of the Arctic: Bridging Policy, Research, and Lived Experience”, a non-academic event co-organized with the UArctic and hosted by the 2018 UArctic Congress at the University of Helsinki 
on September 6-7, 2018.