Stein Tønnesson
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| Stein D. Tønnesson | |
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| Born | December 2, 1953 |
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| Nationality |  Norwegian |
| Fields | history |
| Institutions | International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (director) |
| Alma mater | University of Århus, University of Oslo |
Stein D. Tønnesson (born December 2, 1953) is a Norwegian historian. He has been the director of the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo since 2001.
Educated at the University of Aarhus and the University of Oslo, he received his dr. philos. in history from the University of Oslo in 1991. Tønnesson's foremost research efforts have been revolution and war in Vietnam, national identity in South-East Asia, the South China Sea conflict, and Norwegian sports history. Tønnesson has also worked as a journalist. His interests the past decade has been in particular global history and globalization.
Stein Tønnesson has worked as Professor of Human Development Studies at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) at the University of Oslo, and has also been a senior research fellow at the Nordic Institute for Asia Studies (NIAS) in Copenhagen.
Tønnesson has also published several volumes related to his fields of study.
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