The adminstrative staff of the Barents Institute consists of Administrative Manager Svein Helge Orheim and Secretary Marit Wøhni

Dr Aileen A. Espíritu is the Director of the Barents Institute effective since 1st March 2010. Aileen has the overall responsibility for the Institute’s academic as well as the administrative operations, focusing on the cross-border research and studies, transnational relations, Northern politics, and regional development.
E-mail: aileen.espiritu at barinst.no

Victoria Tevlina’s main research project at the Barents Institute aims to produce a general comparative outlook on the growth and change of social welfare systems in Russia and Norway over the last two hundred years. This is a multicultural and multidisciplinary project in which she is analyzing the ideological context and material conditions for civic initiative and public policy aiming to implement various practices of modernisation and the furthering of wellbeing within the social sphere in Norway and Russian.
E-mail: victoria at barinst.no

The Barents Institute co-advices and supports Master theses on several important issues related to the Barents Region.

Barents Institute regularly hosts visting fellows and occasionally appoints visiting professors based on their excellency and seniority of research on some of the fields central to the BAI. They are invited to stay at the institute in Kirkenes to do research, to interact with the permanent staff and students of the institute, and to contribute to BAI outreach and consulting business.

Urban Wråkberg conducts research on social, political and scientific issues in the Circum-Arctic. He has published in Swedish, English, Norwegian and Russian on the social construction of knowledge and regional development in the High North. More recently, his work focuses on cross-border issues, on theories and practices of sustainability, and on northern industrial development. Projects at the Barents Institute include research coordination and collaboration based on various international networks and alliances.
E-mail: urban at barinst.no