Jakob Eiksund Sæthre holds a Master of Science in Business (Siviløkonom) from BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, with a major in Economics. The master’s included an exchange semester at HEC Lausanne in Switzerland, where he specialized in finance and pricing strategies. Through his studies, Jakob has developed broad expertise in both business and economics, with particular focus on microeconomics, competition economics, and quantitative methods. He is a skilled communicator and has extensive experience with presentations.

In his master’s thesis, he examined the effects of the 2017 Mortgage Regulation on the apartment market in Oslo. The thesis applied a fuzzy difference-in-differences framework to analyse relative price responses across different size segments in the market and discussed the regulation’s impact on young people’s ability to enter the housing market.

Jakob has served as a class representative and as a mathematics tutor at BI during his master’s studies. Outside of academia, he has experience from anti-money laundering work at KPMG, mathematics tutoring, and several years as an athlete on the Norwegian national development team in Nordic combined.