Helge Ole Bergesen (29 September 1949 – 29 June 2015) was a Norwegian political scientist and politician for the Conservative Party. He was born in Stavanger as the grandson of , obtained the mag.art. degree (PhD equivalent) in political science. In 1980 he was hired as a researcher at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute. His publications include Norge mellom rik og fattig (1981), Fiendskap og fellesskap: internasjonal politikk i forandring (1991, with W. Østreng), Norge i det globale drivhuset (1995, with K. Roland and A. K. Sydnes), Dinosaurs or Dynamos? The United Nations and the World Bank at the Turn of the Century (1999, with Leiv Lund). Since 1992 he is also a co-editor of the Green Globe Yearbook.