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Kristel Jæger Skorge holds a cand.philol. and a Doctor of Arts degree from the University of Bergen. She has also completed a Master of Public Administration, specialising in strategic management at Copenhagen Business School. Skorge has extensive experience in the university and college sector and has worked as R&D manager and deputy director at the University of Stavanger, associate professor and head of department at Oslo and Akershus University College (now OsloMet), director of research and innovation administration at the University of Oslo, and director at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO).
She assumed the director position at the Norwegian Academy of Music on 1 May 2023.