Nina Græger is Director at PRIO. Prior to her current position, she served as Head of Department and Professor in International Relations at the University of Copenhagen from 2019–2025. She has previously worked as a researcher at PRIO for two periods between 1993 and 1998, and at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) from 1998–⁠2019.

Currently, Nina Græger is particularly interested in how geopolitics and great power rivalries affect the framework for and co-operation in Nordic and European security – including territorial, hybrid and climate security. In a journal article from 2024, '"High Politics" and Everyday Practices at the Border: Emerging Communities of Practice in the High North', she shows how local collaboration arising over time – communities of practice – often continues across national borders, despite international tension and conflict.

Education and work experience

Nina Græger holds an MSc and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Oslo. Her doctoral research analyzed the restructuring and internationalization of security and defense policy in the post-Cold War era, focusing on the Norwegian Armed Forces.