Petter Jansen 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...

 businessperson

Businessperson

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 and CEO

Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...

 of Norwegian Property

Norwegian Property

Norwegian Property, a real estate company, has a portfolio in Oslo, Bergen and Stavanger in Norway. Created in 2006 and listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange, it invests in major commercial real estate, offering its owners a publicly traded real estate portfolio, consisting of 762,000 square meters...

. He is educated in the Norwegian military and the Swedish military as well as from Östersund Business School (1986-88) and an executive program at London Business School

London Business School

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. After a career in the military, he became director of Oslo Airport, Fornebu

Oslo Airport, Fornebu

Oslo Airport, Fornebu was the main airport serving Oslo and Eastern Norway from 1 June 1939 to 7 October 1998. It was then replaced by Oslo Airport, Gardermoen and the area has since been redeveloped. The airport was located at Fornebu in Bærum, from the city center. Fornebu had two runways, one...

 between 1993 and 1996 when he was employed in Den norske Bank

Den norske Bank

Den norske Bank or DnB was a Norwegian bank that existed between 1990 and 2003 when it merged with Gjensidige NOR to form the present DnB NOR...

 and later became CEO of Postbanken

Postbanken

Postbanken is a Norwegian bank that is part of the DnB NOR Group. The bank offers its services through the Norwegian post offices.-History:...

. In 2004 he was employed as CEO SAS Braathens

SAS Braathens

SAS Braathens was the name of Norway's largest airline, created by a merger between Scandinavian Airlines' Norwegian division and Braathens in 2004. On June 1, 2007, the airline was integrated into mainline SAS, and changed its name to SAS Scandinavian Airlines Norge...

 until June 2006 after internal struggle and he was hired by Norwegian Properties.
He is also chairman of Tromsø 2018 that is creating the Tromsø

Tromsø

Tromsø is a city and municipality in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø.Tromsø city is the ninth largest urban area in Norway by population, and the seventh largest city in Norway by population...

 bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics

2018 Winter Olympics

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