Bent Flyvbjerg

{{short description|Danish economic geographer|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix =  | name = Bent Flyvbjerg | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name =  | birth_date =  | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | death_cause = | citizenship =  | other_names = | occupation = | period = | known_for = | title = | boards =  | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards =  | website = | education = | alma_mater =  | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences =  | era = | discipline = Economic geography | sub_discipline =  | workplaces = University of Oxford<br>Delft University of Technology<br>IT University of Copenhagen | doctoral_students =  | notable_students = | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced =  | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} '''Bent Flyvbjerg''' is a Danish economic geographer. He is the Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen.<ref name="ITSite">{{cite web | url=https://itu.dk/flyvbjerg | title=Bent Flyvbjerg }}</ref>

== Education and career == Flyvbjerg received his Ph.D. in urban geography and planning from Aarhus University, Denmark, with parts done at the University of California at Los Angeles.

He was the first BT Professor and inaugural chair of major programme management at Oxford University's Saïd Business School (retiring from the post in 2021) before coming to IT University of Copenhagen and becoming the chair of major program management there.<ref name="ITSite" /> He was previously a professor of planning at Aalborg University, Denmark and chair of the department of infrastructure policy and planning at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/community/people/bent-flyvbjerg|title=Bent Flyvbjerg|website=Said Business School, University of Oxford|access-date=2016-04-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412151811/https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/community/people/bent-flyvbjerg|archive-date=2018-04-12|url-status=dead}}</ref> He is a fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/find-an-expert/professor-bent-flyvbjerg|title=Professor Bent Flyvbjerg - University of Oxford|website=www.ox.ac.uk}}</ref>

He was a member of the Danish Infrastructure Commission and a director of the Danish Court Administration.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Infrastrukturkommissionens betænkning - Transportministeriet|url = http://www.trm.dk/da/publikationer/2008/infrastrukturkommissionens-betaenkning|website = www.trm.dk|access-date = 2015-12-21|archive-date = 2015-12-22|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151222100640/http://www.trm.dk/da/publikationer/2008/infrastrukturkommissionens-betaenkning|url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=December 2003|title=Med en "bestyrers" øjne|url=https://www.domstol.dk/om/publikationer/HtmlPublikationer/Danmarks%20Domstole/Danmarks%20Domstole%20nr.%2020/kap06.htm|journal=Danmarks Domstole |issue=20|access-date=2016-04-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091021/https://www.domstol.dk/om/publikationer/HtmlPublikationer/Danmarks%20Domstole/Danmarks%20Domstole%20nr.%2020/kap06.htm|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}</ref>

He has written extensively about megaprojects, decision making, city management, and philosophy of social science. His research falls in three main areas: the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences, power and rationality in decision making, and megaproject planning and management.

==Books== *1998 ''Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice'', University of Chicago Press ({{ISBN|0226254518}}) *2001 ''Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again'', Cambridge University Press ({{ISBN|0-521-77568-X}}) *2003 ''Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition''. Cambridge University Press ({{ISBN|0-521-00946-4}}) *2008 ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=tenILJ-MowQC&q=Decision-Making+on+Mega-Projects%3A+Cost-Benefit+Analysis%2C+Planning+and+Innovation Decision-Making on Mega-Projects: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Planning and Innovation]'', Elgar ({{ISBN|978-1-84542-737-5}}) *2012 [https://books.google.com/books?id=3I2fBeHZpBcC&q=Real+Social+Science%3A+Applied+Phronesis%2C+Cambridge+University+Press ''Real Social Science: Applied Phronesis'', Cambridge University Press] ({{ISBN|978-0-521-16820-5}}) *2014 ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=zOQhvgAACAAJ&q=editions%3AQg6umPDRoXwC Megaproject Planning and Management: Essential Readings, Volumes I-II]'', Elgar ({{ISBN|978-1-78100-170-7}}) *2017 ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=J_8lDwAAQBAJ&q=The+Oxford+Handbook+of+Megaproject+Management The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management]'', Oxford University Press ({{ISBN|978-0-19873-224-2}}) *2023 ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=95RCzwEACAAJ&q=How+Big+Things+Get+Done How Big Things Get Done]'', Penguin Random House ({{ISBN|978-0-593239513}})

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