Dr. Jostein Mykletun's diplomatic career includes the position as Norway's Consul General in Houston, Dean of the Houston Consular Corps, Norwegian High North Ambassador, and Science and Technology Counselor at Norway's Embassy in Washington, D.C. Dr. Mykletun's business career includes having served as CEO of Offshore Northern Seas (ONS, Stavanger, Norway), and as Secretary General of World Petroleum Congress (1994).

Dr. Mykletun’s professional experience spans science, university lecturing, government service, energy related business and industry, with a strong international orientation at the cross-roads of entrepreneurial management, innovative, targeted networking, and forging of public-private partnerships. Areas of special interest include science and innovative technology as policy shapers and drivers, energy and energy policy, environment, climate change, medicine, and health. Broad and first-hand experience in transatlantic science, technology, and energy R&D cooperation, having held executive management positions both in Europe and North America. Dr. Mykletun has developed an extensive network of institutional and personal contacts both in academia and in the business community.