Norbert Thom is professor emeritus for Business Administration at the University of Bern.
His special field is organization and human resource management. Earlier in his academic career he was researching and teaching full time at the universities of Fribourg (Switzerland), Giessen and Cologne (both in Germany). Norbert Thom was visiting professor in Basel (Switzerland), Linz (Austria) and Cluj-Napoca (Romania).
In Bern he was founder (1991) and director (until 2012) of the Institute of Organization and Personnel Management (IOP). In addition he acted as co-founder (2002) of the Competence Center of Public Administration where he is now Senior Fellow. Norbert Thom was active member in several scientific associations for management and organization, human resource management, innovation and idea management and administrative science.