Harald Norvik is a former chairman, president, and chief executive of Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 oil

Petroleum industry

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 giant Statoil

Statoil

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. Since 2007 he has been Chairman of Telenor

Telenor

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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

Prime Minister of Norway

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, Odvar Nordli

Odvar Nordli

is a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party. He was Prime Minister of Norway from 1976 to 1981.Nordli grew up in Tangen in Stange, Hedmark. After World War II he served in the Independent Norwegian Brigade Group in Germany, part of the Allied forces occupying post-war Germany...

, and also as State Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy

Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy

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. From 1981 to 1988 he was finance director and a member of the board at Aker

Aker ASA

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. He served as Statoil President and CEO

Chief executive officer

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 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

Aschehoug

H. Aschehoug & Co , commonly known as Aschehoug, is one of the largest independent publishing companies in Norway. -History:...

, member of the board of directors in ConocoPhillips

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, member of the board of Petroleum Geo-Services

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 and Chairman of OCAS.

Harald Norvik has attended the Bilderberg meetings.