Svein Ingvar Gjedrem 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 graduated in political economy

Political economy

Political economy originally was the term for studying production, buying, and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government, as well as with the distribution of national income and wealth, including through the budget process. Political economy originated in moral philosophy...

 from the University of Oslo

University of Oslo

The University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...

 in 1975, worked as a consultant in the Central Bank of Norway from 1975–1979 and 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...

 from 1979 to 1998. He served two terms as Central Bank Governor from 1999-2010. In June 2011, Gjedrem got his position as permanent under-secretary of the Ministry of Finance back.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s Gjedrem played football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 for Viking

Viking F.K.

Viking Fotballklubb is a Norwegian football club from the city of Stavanger. The club was founded in 1899 as football was becoming increasingly popular...

 and Lyn.

Svein Gjedrem has attended the Bilderberg meetings.

Gjedrem¨s successor as Governor of the Central Bank of Norway was Øystein Olsen

Øystein Olsen

Øystein Olsen is a Norwegian economist, and since January 1, 2011 Governor of the Central Bank of Norway, succeeding Svein Gjedrem in that position....

 who was appointed in October 2010 and took over on January 1st, 2011.

Gjedrem has accepted a part time position at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, and started teaching in 2011.