Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, is Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen. From 2022 until 2026, he also works as Academic Director of the Holberg Prize.

His research is mainly on Southern Africa and Mozambique. His interests include the issues of inequality, egalitarianism, urban transformation, future practices, violence, state, memory and tradition within political anthropology.

In the period October 2018 until end 2023, he is the project leader and PI for a large-scale research project funded by the Norwegian Research Council entitled "Enclaving: Patterns of global futures in three African cities". The project will probe urban developments in Accra, Johannesburg and Maputo in relation to the formation, trajectories and dynamics of enclaving and it has researchers from Ghana, Mozambique, Norway, South Africa and United Kingdom as participants.

Bjorn is also involved in the research group "Egalitarian Futures Research Group (FUTURES)" at the Department, in addition to participating in the two research projects "God, Gas, and Grievance? Understanding Northern Mozambique's New Islamist War" hosted by Christian Michelsen Institute and "Gas Gospels: Un/Sustainable Development and Environmental Risk in Mozambique" hosted by School of Global Studies, Universitety of Gothenburg. From October 2019 until 1. January 2022 he was the Executive Director of GRIP (Global Research Programme on Inequality) -- a global research programme on inequality tied to both the International Science Council and the University of Bergen.