Gunnar Bovim

Gunnar Bovim (born 2 February 1960) is a Norwegian physician and civil servant. He has been the rector at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology from August 1, 2013 to August 21, 2019. After that he will be working with policy matters related to education and research at NTNU and be of disposal to NTNUs top management.

Career He hails from Nesttun, and took his cand.med. degree at the University of Bergen in 1985. He took the dr.med. degree at the University of Trondheim in 1993 and became a specialist in neurology in the same year. He worked at the University of Trondheim, later the Norwegian University of Science and Technology after a merger. In the period 2001–2003 he was also a board member of the Central Norway Regional Health Authority. He took a position as the deputy managing director of St. Olavs Hospital in Trondheim in 2005, and became managing director in 2006.

He started as the CEO of the Central Norway Regional Health Authority in 2009. He accepted the position as rector at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in December 2012, and officially assumed the post on 1 August 2013.

Bovim has been criticized by the Norwegian Association of Researchers for not being present in his job as Rector, and for pursuing too many appointments outside academia.

He has also been criticized for his role in the "Eikrem-case" at NTNU.