Jens Ørding Hansen is a senior researcher at Nordland Research Institute, Norway. His research interests include corporate governance, corporate finance, financial statement analysis, regional development, responsible research and innovation (RRI), organization studies, and environmental economics. He has taught finance, economics, and accounting at colleges and universities in Denmark, China, and Vietnam. At Nordland Research Institute he works on several Horizon 2020-funded projects focusing especially on RRI and regional development.