Åse Aulie Michelet 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 pharmacist

Pharmacist

Pharmacists are allied health professionals who practice in pharmacy, the field of health sciences focusing on safe and effective medication use...

. Since 1 March 2008 she has been Chief Executive Officer

Chief executive officer

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 of Marine Harvest. She is also a member of the board of Orkla

Orkla Group

Orkla Group is a Norwegian industrial conglomerate operating in the Nordic region, Eastern Europe, Asia and the US. The company's main divisions are branded consumer goods, aluminium solutions, materials, associates and financial investments.-Operations:...

.

Michelet was educated in pharmacy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich

ETH Zurich

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 and 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...

, graduating in 1978. After one-year as a researcher at University of Oslo, she started working for Nycomed

Nycomed

Nycomed is a European pharmaceutical company. Nycomed is privately owned primarily by the two private equity investors Nordic Capital and CSFB Alternative Capital. Production is located in Norway, Denmark, Poland, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Estonia India, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. Head office...

 in 1979. She became a middle manager in 1984 and an executive in 1990. In 1998 she became director of Amersham Health

Amersham plc

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 in Norway, and for production worldwide—a job she continued after the buy-out in 2004, when it became part of GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare

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. In 2008 she became Chief Executive Officer of the farmed seafood company Marine Harvest.