Kjell Storvik is a 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...

 economist and former Governor of the Central Bank of Norway.

He is a cand.oecon.

Cand.oecon.

Candidatus oeconomices or Candidata oeconomices , often abbreviated cand.oecon. is an academic degree in economics at Danish and Norwegian universities. It is roughly equivalent to a Master of Economics, but it consists of 4+2 years, and was based on a four year cand.mag.. The degree was replaced...

 by education. From 1977 to 1981 he was the vice president of the Norwegian Shipowners' Association

Norwegian Shipowners' Association

The Norwegian Shipowners Association is an employers' organization and interest group for Norwegian shipping and offshore companies. The organization's primary fields are national and international industry policies, employer issues, competence and recruitment, environmental issues and innovation...

. He was then State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance

Norwegian Ministry of Finance

The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Finance is a Norwegian ministry established in 1814. The ministry is responsible for state finance, including the state budget, taxation and economic policy in Norway. It is led by Sigbjørn Johnsen...

 for four years. He was appointed Vice Governor of the Central Bank of Norway. When Governor Torstein Moland

Torstein Moland

Torstein Moland is a Norwegian economist.From 1986 to 1989, during the second cabinet Brundtland, Moland was a state secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister....

was forced to resign, Storvik became acting Governor, only to get the job on a permanent basis the next year.