Hanne Cecilie Kavli is managing director of Fafo.

Before this, she was a senior researcher and research director at Fafo, with immigration and integration as her area of specialty. She holds a PhD in sociology and works on a wide range of topics related to labor, welfare, trust, and integration.

Kavli has published a large number of research reports at Fafo and several articles and book chapters nationally and internationally. She has broad methodological competence and experience with register data, survey data, and qualitative data.

Kavli has extensive leadership experience, both as a research manager and as a research director with strategic management of the institute's research work. She has extensive experience in leading researchers, research projects, and coordinating and leading international collaborative projects. She has also conducted extensive mentoring and editorial work, most recently as the editor for Fafo's anniversary anthology in 2023 and an international anthology on part-time work published by Policy Press in 2019.

She engages in extensive outreach work and has participated as a member of several publicly appointed committees.