Harald Norvik

Harald Norvik (born 21 June 1946 in Vadsø) is a former chairman, president, and chief executive of Norwegian oil giant Statoil. Since 2007 he has been Chairman of Telenor.

Norvik received his Master of Science Degree in Business from the Norwegian School of Economics. Between 1979 and 1981 he served as personal secretary to the Prime Minister of Norway, Odvar Nordli, and also as State Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy.^[1] From 1981 to 1988 he was finance director and a member of the board at Aker. He served as Statoil President and CEO from 1988 to 1999. He is currently a strategic advisor of ECON and has been a partner of ECON from 2001. He is Chairman of the Board of Aschehoug, member of the board of directors in ConocoPhillips, member of the board of Petroleum Geo-Services and Chairman of OCAS.

Harald Norvik has attended the Bilderberg meetings.

References

^ Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. "Olje- og energidepartementet. Statssekretær 1978-1992". http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/om_regjeringen/tidligere/oversikt/departementer_embeter/regjeringssekr_dep/dep/Olje--og-energidepartementet-1978-1992/Olje--og-energidepartementet-statssekret.html?id=448357.

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Preceded by Arve Johnsen	Chief executive of Statoil 1988–1999	Succeeded by Olav Fjell

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Name	Norvik, Harald
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Date of birth	21 June 1946
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