Morten Levin, who passed away on 23 April 2023(2023-04-23) (aged 76), was a Norwegian sociologist and Professor of Organization and Work Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
[1] Levin studied mechanical engineering and graduated with a master's degree in Operations Research and Economics in 1971.
[2] He was a member of an international committee evaluating the entire Danish PhD education in 2006.
[4] Together with Ann Rudinow Sætnan (an American-born Jewish Professor of Sociology at NTNU)[5] and Rune Skarstein, he organized a conference on the Middle East conflict in 2009, attracting scholars such as Ilan Pappe, Stephen Walt and Moshe Zuckermann.
[7] Alan M. Dershowitz used the conference as an example of Norwegian academia being "one-sided" and "anti-semitic" in a 2011 op-ed.