# Bent Flyvbjerg

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'''Bent Flyvbjerg''' is a [Danish](/source/Danish_people) [economic geographer](/source/Economic_geography). He is the Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor at the [IT University of Copenhagen](/source/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](/source/urban_geography) and planning from [Aarhus University](/source/Aarhus_University), Denmark, with parts done at the [University of California at Los Angeles](/source/University_of_California%2C_Los_Angeles).

He was the first BT Professor and inaugural chair of major programme management at [Oxford University](/source/Oxford_University)'s [Saïd Business School](/source/Sa%C3%AFd_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](/source/Aalborg_University), [Denmark](/source/Denmark) and chair of the department of infrastructure policy and planning at [Delft University of Technology](/source/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](/source/St_Anne's_College%2C_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](/source/megaprojects), [decision making](/source/decision_making), [city management](/source/city_management), and [philosophy of social science](/source/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](/source/Rationality_and_Power%3A_Democracy_in_Practice)'', University of Chicago Press ({{ISBN|0226254518}})
*2001 ''[Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again](/source/Making_Social_Science_Matter%3A_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](/source/Megaprojects_and_Risk%3A_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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