Courses taught

MSc in Major Programme Management

Expertise

Bent Flyvbjerg's research covers cost overruns and benefit shortfalls in major programmes, theories of success and failure, complexity and innovation, optimism bias and strategic misrepresentation, cost and demand forecasting in high-risk environments, risk assessment and management, and governance of major programmes. He is author and co-author of key references in the field of major programme management, including the books Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition and Decision-Making on Mega-Projects.

Flyvbjerg furthermore does research on the philosophy of social science, where he has pioneered a research methodology called “phronetic social science," described in his books Making Social Science Matter and Rationality and Power. His books and articles have been translated into 18 languages and his research covered by Science, The Economist, the Financial Times, The New York Times, the BBC, and many other media.

Overview

Bent Flyvbjerg is the first BT Professor and Chair of Major Programme Management at Oxford University. He is founding Director of Oxford’s BT Centre for Major Programme Management. He is a leading international expert within the field of major programme management and planning.

Flyvbjerg has worked as a consultant to government, regulators, corporations, banks, national audit offices, the EU Commission, and the United Nations. He has been adviser to the UK, Dutch, and Danish governments in formulating national policies for infrastructure, environment, transportation, and science.

Flyvbjerg has received numerous honors and awards, including two Visiting Fulbright Scholarships to the USA, where he did research at the University of California at Los Angeles and Berkeley and at Harvard University. He has been a Visiting Fellow with the European University Institute in Florence. In 2002, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark conferred upon Bent Flyvbjerg the Knighthood of the Order of the Dannebrog for his professional accomplishments.

Before coming to Oxford, Flyvbjerg held professorships at Aalborg University, Denmark and Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He received his Ph.D. from Aarhus University, Denmark, and holds two higher doctorates from Aalborg University in engineering (Dr. Techn.) and science (Dr. Scient.), respectively.

Bent Flyvbjerg is a Professorial Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.

Research interests

Major programme management and planning.
Major programme finance and risk.
Regulation of major programmes.
Philosophy of social science.

Books

Bent Flyvbjerg, Todd Landman, and Sandford Schram, eds., Real Social
Science: Applied Phronesis. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

Hugo Priemus, Bent Flyvbjerg, and Bert van Wee, eds., Decision-Making On Mega-Projects: Cost–benefit Analysis, Planning, and Innovation. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 2008.

Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius, and Werner Rothengatter, Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition. Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Bent Flyvbjerg, Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again. Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Bent Flyvbjerg, Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice. The University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Journal articles

"Why Your IT Project May Be Riskier than You Think." Co-author: Alexander Budzier. Harvard Business Review, September 2011, pp. 601-603; selected by HBR as leading article for the "Ideas Watch" section, featuring the hottest new ideas in business and management.

"Transferable Knowledge: An Interview with Bent Flyvbjerg," interview by Inge Mette Kirkeby, Architectural Research Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 1, 2011, pp. 9-14.

"Lock-in and Its Influence on the Project Performance of Large-Scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Investigating the Way in Which Lock-In Can Emerge and Affect Cost Overruns." Co-authors: Chantal C. Cantarelli, Bert van Wee, and Eric J. E. Molin. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 2010, volume 37, pp. 792-807.

"Large Transport Infrastructure Projects: Improving Institutions and Decision Making." Co-author Bert van Wee. Editorial, European Journal of Transport Infrastructure Research, vol. 10, no. 1, March 2010, pp. 1-4.

"Cost Overruns in Large-scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Explanations and Their Theoretical Embeddedness." Co-authors: Chantal C. Cantarelli, Eric J.E. Molin, and Bert van Wee. European Journal of Transport Infrastructure Research, vol. 10, no. 1, March 2010, pp. 5-18.

"Survival of the Unfittest: Why the Worst Infrastructure Gets Built—And What We Can Do about It." Oxford Review of Economic Policy, vol. 25, no. 3, 2009, pp. 344–367.

"Delusion and Deception in Large Infrastructure Projects: Two Models for Explaining and Preventing Executive Disaster." Co-authors: Massimo Garbuio and Dan Lovallo. California Management Review, vol. 51, no. 2, Winter 2009, pp. 170-193.

"Policy and Planning for Large-Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures." Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, vol. 34, 2007, pp. 578-597. This article was awarded the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) Prize for Best Published Paper, July 2008.

"Comparison of Capital Costs per Route-Kilometre in Urban Rail." Principal author: Bent Flyvbjerg; co-authors: Nils Bruzelius and Bert van Wee. European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, vol. 8, no. 1, March 2008, pp. 17-30.

"Curbing Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation in Planning: Reference Class Forecasting in Practice." European Planning Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, January 2008, pp. 3-21.

"Planning and Design of Large Infrastructure Projects." Guest editorial. Co-author: Hugo Priemus. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, vol. 34, 2007, pp. 576-577.

"Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure." Transportation Planning and Technology, vol. 30, no. 1, February 2007, pp. 9-30.

"From Nobel Prize to Project Management: Getting Risks Right." Project Management Journal, vol. 37, no. 3, August 2006, pp. 5-15.

"Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research." Qualitative Inquiry, vol. 12, no. 2, April 2006, pp. 219-245.

"Measuring Inaccuracy in Travel Demand Forecasting: Methodological Considerations Regarding Ramp Up and Sampling." Transportation Research A, vol. 39, no. 6, July 2005, pp. 522-530.

"Design by Deception: The Politics of Megaproject Approval." Harvard Design Magazine, no. 22, Spring/Summer 2005, pp. 50-59.

"How (In)accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects? The Case of Transportation." Principal author: Bent Flyvbjerg; co-authors: Mette Skamris Holm and Søren L. Buhl. Journal of the American Planning Association, vol. 71, no. 2, Spring 2005, pp. 131-146.

Book chapters 

‪"Habermas and Foucault: Thinkers for Civil Society?”. In Stewart R. Clegg and Mark Haugaard, eds., Power and Organizations. London: Sage, forthcoming.

 "Delusion, Deception and Corruption in Major Infrastructure Projects: Causes, Consequences, Cures."  Co-author Eamonn Molloy.  In Susan Rose-Ackerman and Tina Soreide, eds., International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2011, pp. 81-107.

"Policy and Planning for Large Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, and Curses." In Thomas L. Harper, Michael Hibbard, Heloisa Costa, Anthony Gar-On Yeh, eds., Dialogues in Urban Regional Planning. Volume 4, New York: Routledge, 2011, pp. 223-248.

"Making Social Science Matter." Chapter 1 in Georgios Papanagnou, ed., Social Science and Policy Challenges: Democracy, Values and Capacities. Paris: UNESCO Publishing, 2011, pp. 25-56.

"Case Study." In Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln, eds., The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research, 4th Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2011, pp. 301-316.

"Over Budget, Over Time, Over and Over Again: Managing Major Projects." In Peter W. G. Morris, Jeffrey K. Pinto, and Jonas Söderlund, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Project Management. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 321-344.

"Optimism and Misrepresentation in Early Project Development." In Terry Williams, Knut Samset and Kjell Sunnevag, eds., Making Essential Choices with Scant Information: Front-end Decision Making in Major Projects. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 147-168.

"Phronetic Organizational Research." In Richard Thorpe and Robin Holt, eds., The Sage Dictionary of Qualitative Management Research. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2008, pp. 153-155.

"Making Sociology Matter: Phronetic Sociology as Public Sociology." In Michael Hviid Jacobsen, ed., Public Sociology. Aalborg University Press, 2008, pp. 77-117.

"Introduction: Scope of the Book." Co-authors Hugo Priemus and Bert van Wee. In Hugo Priemus, Bent Flyvbjerg, and Bert van Wee, eds., Decision-Making On Mega-Projects: Cost-benefit Analysis, Planning, and Innovation. Cheltenham, UK and Northamton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 2008, pp. 1-20.

"Public Planning of Mega-projects: Overestimation of Demand and Underestimation of Costs." In Hugo Priemus, Bent Flyvbjerg, and Bert van Wee, eds., Decision-Making On Mega-Projects: Cost-benefit Analysis, Planning, and Innovation. Cheltenham, UK and Northamton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 2008, pp. 120-144.

"How Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation in Early Project Development Undermine Implementation." In Kjell J. Sunnevåg, ed., Beslutninger på svakt informasjonsgrunnlag: Tilnærminger og utfordringer i projekters tidlige fase (Decisions based on weak information: Approaches and challenges in the early phase of projects). Trondheim, Norway: Concept Program, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2007, pp. 41-55.

"Eliminating Bias in Early Project Development through Reference Class Forecasting and Good Governance." In Kjell J. Sunnevåg, ed., Beslutninger på svakt informasjonsgrunnlag: Tilnærminger og utfordringer i projekters tidlige fase (Decisions based on weak information: Approaches and challenges in the early phase of projects). Trondheim, Norway: Concept Program, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2007, pp. 90-110.

"Megaprojects and Risk." In William L. Richter and Frances Burke, eds., Combating Corruption, Encouraging Ethics: A Practical Guide to Management Ethics. Second Edition. Principal author: Bent Flyvbjerg; co-authors: Nils Bruzelius and Werner Rothengatter. Published in cooperation with The American Society for Public Administration. Lanham, MA and Plymouth, UK: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007, pp. 52-58.

"Five Misunderstandings about Case-Study Research." In Clive Seale, Giampietro Gobo, Jaber F. Gubrium, and David Silverman, eds., Qualitative Research Practice: Concise Paperback Edition. London and Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2007, pp. 390-404.

"A Perestroikan Straw Man Answers Back: David Laitin and Phronetic Political Science." In Sanford F. Schram and Brian Caterino, eds., Making Political Science Matter: Debating Knowledge, Research, and Method. New York and London: New York University Press, 2006, pp. 56-85.

"Making Organization Research Matter: Power, Values, and Phronesis." In Stewart R. Clegg, Cynthia Hardy, Thomas B. Lawrence, and Walter R. Nord, eds., The Sage Handbook of Organization Studies. Second Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, July 2006, pp. 370-387.

Working papers

"Double Whammy – How ICT Projects are Fooled by Randomness and Screwed by Political Intent." Co-author Alex Budzier, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, August 2011, 33pp. 

"Truth and Lies About Megaprojects." Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management, Delft University of Technology, September 2007, 27 pp.

"Megaproject Policy and Planning: Problems, Causes, Cures." Summary of dissertation for higher doctorate in science (Dr. Scient.). Aalborg: Uni.print, Aalborg University, 2007, 62 pp.

"Policy and Planning for Large Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures." Policy Research Working Paper, WPS 3781, World Bank, Washington, DC, 2005, 32 pp. 

"The High Price of Rebuilding Iraq." Unpublished Op-Ed, Saïd Business School, Oxford University, April 2003.

On the web

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Media coverage in English

2011

Cost rail projects properly to bring down the bills Sydney Morning Herald (29/10/2011)

The Webb Telescope: Late and Overbudget but Still Worthwhile The Atlantic (28/10/2011)

Business-school research: The physics-envy problem The Economist (14/10/2011)

TransLink's 2012 Supplemental Plan and Outlook imparts intentional inaccuracy straight.com (08/09/2011)

IT Greatness Vs. IT Risk Information Week (07/09/2011)

Private firms in a flap over black swan projects project (06/09/2011)

City lights Holyrood (05/09/2011)

California Bullet Train: Cost Of High-Speed Rail Project Balloons Huffington Post (29/08/2011)

One in six major IT projects go 200% over budget itp.net (27/08/2011)

Private sector IT projects just as bad as in public sector Information Age (26/08/2011)

'Black swans' busting IT budgets BBC News (26/08/2011)

One in six IT projects 'out of control' Public Service (24/08/2011)

IT Fails to Deliver on Time and Within Budget The Wall Street Journal (24/08/2011)

Traveling back to the future on intercity buses Washington Examiner (23/08/2011)

IT projects demolish big businesses and executive careers, say researchers Computer Weekly (22/08/2011)

'Black swans' fly out of control; Growing threat from high-cost, hi-tech projects The Times (22/08/2011)

Five ways to stop your IT projects spiralling out of control and overbudget Silicon (22/08/2011)

Huge IT cost blow-outs ABC Radio National (20/08/2011)

Tres grand vitesse, tres grand cost overrun The Economist (15/08/2011)

California High-Speed Rail Costs Skyrocket CBS San Francisco (09/08/2011)

Standard and Poor's piss-poor political science Foreign Policy (06/08/2011)

The Economics Of China's High-Speed Rail Business Insider (25/07/2011)

Why big projects usually exceed cost estimates The Washington Examiner (14/07/2011)

Why We Shouldn't be Building Large Infrastructure Projects Forbes (13/07/2011)

Procurement alliances key to securing water work: report Journal of Commerce (13/07/2011)

Too Many Public Works Built on Rosy Scenarios Bloomberg (08/07/2011)

Honolulu: Mega Rail Project in a Micro City Hawaii Reporter (05/07/2011)

Procurement alliances will be key to securing water work, C.D. Howe Institute report finds The Daily Commercial News And Construction Record (23/06/2011)

Legal threat to consultant as toll road traffic fails to materialise TransportXtra (03/06/2011)

Costs piling up for Ohio River Bridges Project traffic study Courier-journal.com (17/05/2011)

Of Space Ships and Bullet Trains City Journal (06/04/2011)

Manhattan Moment: Space shuttle program is a cautionary tale for ambitious infrastructure projects Washington Examiner (05/04/2011)

Airport tunnel report should be released by city The Calgary Herald (27/03/2011)

Research sets the benchmarks Project Manager Today (03/2011)

The Costly Risks of Mega-projects like the Columbia River Crossing
BlueOregon.com (25/03/2011)

MRT price tag: Where to draw the line? Free Malaysia Today (06/03/2011)

RM51 billion for under-used MRT? Free Malaysia Today (03/03/2011)

Reputations are made by great PR Financial Times (26/01/2011)

High-Speed Heaven or Boondoggle Express Miller-McCune.com (08/02/2011)

2010

Where Infrastructure Estimates Come Up Short  The Wall Street Journal (16/10/2010)

When Construction Costs Runneth Over  The Wall Street Journal (15/10/2010)

California High Speed Rail: Results for Hire: Fact Check  Examiner.Com (29/08/2010)

California High Speed Rail - Results for Hire & Mega Project Estimate Failures Examiner.Com (16/08/2010) 

Who will pay for California's high-speed rail system? MercuryNews.com (15/08/2010)

Sea link contractor seeks anotehr Rs 680 cr for overheads in project The Times of India (03/08/2010)

Judge Quentin Kopp defends high-speed rail KALW News (02/08/2010)

The Planning Problem: A documentary on high-speed rail KALW News (21/07/2010)

Management plan for Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel minimizes chance of cost overruns The Seattle Times (15/07/2010)

Hidden challenges of Highway 99 tunnel The Seattle Times (12/07/2010)

California High Speed Rail Authority opts to ignore ridership problems San Francisco Chronicle (09/07/2010)

Radio interview Dave Ross Show, KIRO 97.3 FM, Seattle (05/07/2010)

Drilling a Highway 99 tunnel thrills industry pros The Seattle Times (22/06/2010)

Radical transport thinking sparks dispute Financial Times (06/06/2010)

Seattle mayor’s viaduct tunnel vision Business Journal (04/06/2010)

Rail is a gravy train only for its promoters by Panos D. Prevedouros Star Bulletin (13/04/2010)

Ohio 3C train plan closely tracks 'Gridlock' author's scenario of 'strategic misrepresentation' by John Michael Spinelli, Examiner.Com (12/04/2010)

Taken For A Ride: Parsons Brinckerhoff Exposé By Tara Servatius  Coronado Common Sense (08/03/2010)

Construction risk - What risk? Project Finance International (10/02/2010)

2009

Managing mega projects World Finance (17/12/2009)

Comment on infrastructure stimulus initiatives The Banker (10/2009)

Is the tunnel a boondoggle? Crosscut (20/10/2009)

Alaskan Way Viaduct tunnel claims: Who's right? The Seattle Times (17/10/2009)

Bore, Baby, Bore? Sightline Report Compares Cost Overruns of Seattle-Area Tunnels  Northwest Hub (17/10/2009)

Bridging the Political Divide by Roger Valdez Sightline Daily (16/09/2009)

Why do so many projects overrun their budget? ePM Training Services (14/09/2009)

Rail 626: Network Rail shows weakness of high speed rail business case by Christian Wolmar  Rail Magazine (09/09/2009)

Why do we get megaproject costs wrong? by Clark Williams-Derry  Sightline Daily (31/08/2009) 

Train wreck - Alberta's high-speed train proposal is on collision course with fiscal reality. by Mark Milke  Western Standard (20/07/2009)

MSc aims to halt overruns to transport project costs  TransportXtra (08/05/2009)

Tunnel's cost may fool us all by Danny Westneat The Seattle Times (03/05/2009)

Absolution ain’t a modern solution by Paul Morrell bd (24/04/2009)

When getting it right or wrong, size matters by Carol Lewis TimesOnline (31/03/2009)

Media coverage in other languages

2011

Supersygehus nærmer sig ny byggeskandale Politiken.dk (29/10/2011)

Megaprojekter kræver det helt store ingeniørkørekort Ingeniøren (22/10/2011)

Lizenz zum Lügen Megaprojekte (20/10/2011)

ICT-Projekte: Vorsicht vor dem Schwarzen Schwan inside it.ch (17/10/2011)

Het ondenkbare denken De Standaard (15/10/2011)

Hvert sjette store IT-projekt løber løbsk DR Forside (14/09/2011)

Professor: Betalingsring en lappeløsning DR Forside (08/09/2011)

6 ud af 10 offentlige danske it-projekter ender i kaos COMPUTERWORLD (01/09/2011) 

Store it-projekter er en bombe under virksomheden COMPUTERWORLD (30/08/2011)

ИТ-проекты могут разрушить бизнес целиком Baisvik (29/08/2011)

5 gode råd: Sådan undgår du projekt-katastrofen Version 2 (22/08/2011)

1.500 gigantiske it-projekter undersøgt: Hvert sjette ender katastrofalt Version 2 (22/08/2011)

 Auf Lügen eingerichtet Süddeutsche Zeitung Süddeutsche Zeitung (02/08/2011)

Dure bouwprojecten: partijen bedonderen de boel Trouw.nl (08/07/2011)

Dure bouwprojecten: partijen bedonderen de boel Sociale Vraagstukken (07/07/2011)

Rejsekortet slap billigt Jyllands-Posten (06/2011) 

Verdens første sagsanlæg mod optimistisk trafikprognosemager Ingeniøren (08/06/2011)

Ekspert: Prisskred på Femerntunnel skyldes kynisme Ingeniøren (06/06/2011)

Forsker: Tunnelanlæg bliver altid mellem 50 og 100 procent dyrere Ingeniøren (31/05/2011)

Goudzoekers - Aflevering 3: Meerwerk in de bouw Nederland 2 (23/05/2011)

Seattle ruziet over verkeerstunnel Technisch Weekblad (14/05/2011)

Minister strammer grebet om DSB-bestyrelsen Berlingske Tidende  (15/04/2011)

DSB First-skandalen er dømt til at gentage sig Berlingske Tidende (11/04/2011)

Milliarden fürs Straßennetz - Verwaltung der Verkehrswege bleibt große Herausforderung Allgemeine Zeitung Windhoek (05/04/2011)

Balans van 45 jaar Noordwijk Brussel Deze Week (01/04/2011)

Teure Forschung - Seid verschlungen, Milliarden Sueddeutsche.de (21/01/2011)

2010

Interview: Ikke flere havne-brølere  Berlingske (12/11/2010)

Ekspert: Femernpris bliver endnu højere  Berlingske (02/11/2010)

Ekspert: Femernpris bliver endnu højere  Metropenge.dk (02/11/2010)

Flyvbjerg: Ikke plads til mange flere hovsa-udgifter på Femern  Ingeniøren (20/10/2010)

Warum die Kosten häufig bei Großprojekten aus dem Ruder laufen 
WDR 5 (18/10/2010)

Ekstra milliardudgift til Femern-bro  Jyllands-Posten (17/10/2010)

Milliard-smell for Fehmarn-bru  TV2 Nyhetene (17/10/2010)

Kritik preller af på Ulla Astman P4 Nordjylland (17/09/2010)

Region Nordjylland taber terræn P4 Nordjylland (17/09/2010)

Klar vinder i jysk regionskrig Jyllands-Posten (17/09/2010)

Der Nutzen wird oft überbewertet Wirtschafts Blatt (10/09/2010)

Manhattan como estrategia Deia.com (06/09/2010)

Stuttgart 21 - Warum bei Großprojekten die Kosten explodieren  Faz.net (26/08/2010)

Stuttgart 21 - Der tiefe Graben Rheinischer Merkur (19/08/2010)

Metrocityring: Alle bud sprænger budgettet Ingeniøren (04/06/2010)

Ekstraregning truer metrobyggeri Business.dk (04/06/2010)

Metrobyggeri trues af ekstraregning Jydske Vestkysten (04/06/2010)

Q&A: Metro-kritiker besvarer spørgsmål om styring af megaprojekter Ingeniøren (02/06/2010)

Metrodirektør afviser rod i cityringen Børsen (14/05/2010)

Ekspert: Metrocityring styrer mod store problemer DR P4 Copenhagen (14/05/2010)

Metrodirektør afviser rod i cityringen Børsen (14/05/2010) 

Projektekspert: Partnerskaber er for de erfarne bygherrer Ingeniøren (14/05/2010)  

Metrocityring løber større risiko end Ingeniøren (14/05/2010)  

Metroring styrer mod problemer Politiken (13/05/2010)

Metrocityring styrer mod store problemer jp.dk (13/05/2010)

Metrodirektør afviser rod i cityringen TV2 - Nyhederne (13/05/2010) 

Metrocityring styrer mod store problemer TV2 - Nyhederne (13/05/2010)

Cityring dømt til forsinkelse og prisknas Ingeniøren (13/05/2010) 

Metrodirektør afviser rod i cityringen Jydske Vestkysten (13/05/2010) 

Metrocityring styrer mod store problemer Nordjyske.dk (13/05/2010) 

Metrodirektør afviser rod i cityringen Nordjyske.dk (13/05/2010) 

Regeringens ekspertudvalg er politisk styrede Ugebrevet A4 (03/05/2010)

Schönrechnen mit System Frankfurter Rundschau (01/04/2010)

København vokser trods krisen Børsen (22/03/2010)

Ekspert: Ørestad bliver sorteper DR P4 Copenhagen (21/03/2010)

København vokser trods krisen Berlingske Tidende (20/03/2010)

Jeg ser Central Park for mig Berlingske Tidende (20/03/2010)

Metroringens milliardplan vakler Børsen (04/03/2010)

Slik unngår du ønsketenkning Computerworld (27/01/2010)

2009

Opera-arkitekt kunne lære meget af Frank Gehry Politiken (05/12/2009)

Kaster vi gode milliarder efter dårlige? Børsen (20/11/2009)

Höghastighetståg: Vår tids Göta kanal? Dagens Nyheter (19/11/2009)

Rigsrevisionen har svært ved at finde uvildige rådgivere by Birgitte Marfelt Ingeniøren (19/10/2009)

"Samfundsvidenskab der virker" Danish National Radio, DR P1 Formiddag, 2/10/2009 (0900-1000)

Dødt grundsalg sender By & Havn mod konkurs by Birgitte Marfelt and Henning Mølsted  Ingeniøren (04/09/2009)

Teure Denkmäler by Hans C. Müller Handelsblatt (09/08/2009)

Mere metro nu - men hvem betaler milliardregningen by Lars Abild Information.dk (06/08/2009)

2008

Bygge boom: Hvad driver de største anlægsinvesteringer, og hvorfor holder budgetterne aldrig? Byplan Nyt, vol. 8, (September 2008), pp. 8-10.

Taberne lukker og slukker: Om infrastruktur, lobbyarbejde og om at kende sin besøgstid Byplan Nyt, vol. 8, (September 2008), pp. 10-11.