Elling Hamso is a Meeting Management Consultant and Managing Partner of the European Event ROI Institute. He has spent most of his career as a senior executive in the Norwegian oil and gas industry and later as a management consultant.
He started an independent meeting planning company in 2000 and the European Event ROI Institute together with Bernhard Aggeler in Switzerland in 2005.
Hamso is a member of Meeting Professionals International (MPI) European Council and Research Advisory panel. He was ranked 5th on Conference and Incentive Travel magazine's 2006 list of the 50 most influential people in the UK meeting and events industry. He is a Management Sciences graduate and holds a Ph.D. in supplier - customer relationship strategies from Manchester University.