Åsne Havnelid is a Norwegian businessperson and sports official.

She hails from Asker

Asker

Asker is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the Viken traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Asker. The municipality is a suburb of Oslo, the national capital...

. She was educated as an economist in 1985, and was hired at the Norwegian School of Elite Sport in the same year. She served as rector there from 1988 to 1995, and then worked in Olympiatoppen

Olympiatoppen

Olympiatoppen is an organisation that is part of Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports with responsibility for training Norwegian elite sport. Olympiatoppen is based at the Toppidrettssenteret between Norwegian School of Sport Sciences and Sognsvann. The leader of...

. Here she was the director of Toppidrettssenteret

Toppidrettssenteret

Toppidrettssenteret is the training center of the Olympiatoppen, the elite branch of the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports.It is located between the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences and the recreational area Sognsvann....

 and vice executive of Olympiatoppen under Bjørge Stensbøl. From 2004 to 2007 she worked in 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...

. From 2007 to July 2011 she was the chief executive officer of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011. Since August 2011 she has been working as secretary general at the Norwegian Red Cross.

In November 2011 she was nominated to "Citizen of Oslo" by the newspaper Aftenposten Aften for her work during FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011.

She is married and has one child, and resides at Vollen.