Trym Eiterjord

Trym Eiterjord is a Research Associate at The Arctic Institute. He is a contributing writer to the Institute’s flagship weekly publication, The Arctic This Week (TATW). Trym’s contributions include the Fisheries, Shipping and Business, and Infrastructure sections of the newsletter. His research interests include China’s Arctic engagement, as well as the nexus of technology and science in Arctic geopolitics.

He has written extensively on China’s Arcticness, including the growing institutionalization of the Polar Silk Road, and has on several occasions covered the country’s ongoing project to build its first nuclear icebreaker. Trym is currently also developing a newsletter covering China in the Polar Regions, the Polar China Newsletter.

Trym has past experience from the shipping sector, working at the Far East department of ColliCare, a Norwegian logistics company. He was then a trainee at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he worked at the Consulate in Shanghai. During his time at the Consulate, he was involved in various Arctic projects, including polar science workshops and an Arctic Frontiers’ seminar on sustainability.

Trym is currently a graduate student with the Department of Geography and the University of British Columbia where he is studying the construction of policy expertise about the Arctic region, with a focus on countries in Asia. He is also a Predoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute where he studies the securitization of Chinese science in the polar regions.

Trym holds a Bachelor’s in Anthropology and a second Bachelor’s in Chinese Studies, and an MPhil in Chinese Society and Politics, all from the University of Oslo. He has also spent several years studying in China, first at Beijing University and later at Fudan University in Shanghai.