Bjørn Gustavsen (born April 3, 1938) is a Norwegian academic and working life researcher. He has been Director of the Work Research Institute (1972–1983) and Professor at the in Stockholm (1986–1999), the University of Oslo (1995–1999) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (from 2000). He is originally trained as a lawyer, and took the cand.jur. degree at the University of Oslo in 1964. He was an assistant judge 1965-66. After fours years as a research fellow at Norges almenvitenskapelige forskningsråd, he became a researcher at the Work Research Institute in 1970.