Knut Akselvoll

Knut is a former partner at McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) followed by a position as COO of Ramboll Group. He draws upon more than 25 years of consulting and business experience and has been an advisor to large Scandinavian and international organisations.

He has extensive experience with change management and business improvement efforts as well as strategy development and implementation, and holds a MSc. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University where he worked in the field of computational fluid dynamics. His Ph.D was sponsored by NASA and focused on developing mathematical models to simulate turbulent fluid flow. He programmed and ran his simulations on NASA’s mainframe supercomputers (Cray).