Tor Dahl is an economist, consultant, and associate professor in public health at the University of Minnesota. A Fulbright Scholar in Economics, Tor has published works on health care, economics, management, productivity, and behavioral change. He was educated at the Norwegian University School of Economics and Business Administration in Bergen, Norway, and at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, USA. He has served as a consultant to a number of corporations, U.S. governmental departments, foreign governments, and universities. Tor coordinated and edited the Proceedings from the White House Conference on the Vinland National Center, which is a non-profit rehabilitation center for people with disabilities, and chaired international conferences on lifestyle and health.		He is the Chairman Emeritus of the World Confederation of Productivity Science, and has served on a number of national and state councils and task forces. He served as the Governor's Representative on the Minnesota Coalition on Health Care Costs, and on the blue ribbon task force on State Health Priorities. Tor has been a keynote speaker or presenter at a number of national meetings of the American Hospital Association, the Society for the Advancement of Management, the World Confederation of Productivity Science, the Operations Research Society of America, the American Economics Association, the American Public Health Association, the National Science Foundation, the American Heart Association, and others. He is also the founder of Ski for Light, the Vinland Center, the Extensor Corporation, the Norwegian American Cultural Institute, and his own consulting firm - Tor Dahl & Associates.