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Jun 21, 1946 Vadsø, Northern Norway, Norway 78 years old
Norwegian businessman
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About Harald Norvik
- Harald Norvik (born 21 June 1946 in Vadsø) is a former chairman, president, and chief executive of Norwegian oil firm Statoil, a former chairman of telecommunications company Telenor and a director of ConocoPhillips. 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.
- 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 Petroleum Geo-Services and Chairman of OCAS. Harald Norvik has attended the Bilderberg Meeting in 2006 in Ottawa, Canada.
- He is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.In 2016, Norvik published the book, ‘The government as Capitalist’, together with former CEO of Hydro Egil Myklebust and history professor Einar Lie.
- The book discusses how government ownership in Norwegian businesses is larger than in other countries, and that the government-owned companies are very large compared to the rest of the economy.
