Lars Olav Eik is a Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) specialized in animal nutrition and small ruminant production systems. After graduating from NMBU, he joined Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Tanzania, working on dry season feeding of ruminants and introduction of dairy goat keeping in Tanzania. After this assignment, he returned to NMBU and completed his PhD based on work with dairy goats in Norway.

Since 2005, he has coordinated three major research programs in collaboration with SUA. He has also participated in research projects in Ethiopia, Malawi and South Africa. Working together with farmers and private sector, his main interest is multifunctional and innovative production systems for small ruminants, both in tropical and temperate regions. He has supervised a number of Ph.D. students, particularly from East Africa. His teaching covers small ruminant nutrition & production systems and tropical animal husbandry & aquaculture.