Dr. Robert G. Strand is the Executive Director of the Nordic Center at UC Berkeley and the Center for Responsible Business at the Berkeley Haas School of Business. He is also a Lecturer at Berkeley Haas and an Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark.

Robert's research and teaching focus on comparing U.S. and Nordic approaches to responsible business and examining American and Nordic varieties of capitalism, with the aim of advancing sustainable capitalism. He teaches a suite of courses titled "Sustainable Capitalism in the Nordics?" and is the author of Nordic Capitalism: Lessons for Realizing Sustainable Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2026).

Before joining Berkeley Haas in 2014, Robert was an Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School, following a decade in industry with IBM and Boston Scientific in roles spanning manufacturing, supply chain, marketing, strategy, and investor relations. He holds a Ph.D. in corporate social responsibility from Copenhagen Business School, an MBA in international business from the University of Minnesota, and a B.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Wisconsin. He was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Norway, based at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

With his spouse Sarah, Robert is the proud parent of two wonderful children, Jonas and Mikkel. He values a good sense of humor and kindness above all else, and when his obituary is eventually written, Robert hopes those qualities might be said about him.