Åsne Havnelid (born 28 March 1961) is a Norwegian businessperson and sports official. She hails from

Asker Asker ( no, Asker), properly called Askerbygda in Norwegian, is a district and former Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Akershus, Norway. From 2020 it is part of the larger administrative municipality Asker, Viken (also known as Greate ...

. She holds a bachelor's degree in

business administration Business administration, also known as business management, is the administration of a commercial enterprise. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising the business operations of an organization. From the point of view of management ...

from the private college Handelsakademiet (now part of

BI Norwegian Business School BI Norwegian Business School () is the largest business school in Norway and the second largest in all of Europe. BI has in total four campuses with the main one located in Oslo. The university has 845 employees consisting of an academic staff o ...

) from 1985, and was hired as a teacher in skiing at the Norwegian School of Elite Sports, a

secondary school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...

, in the same year. She served as rector there from 1988 to 1995, and then worked in

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 Scho ...

. Here she was the director of

Toppidrettssenteret Toppidrettssenteret ( en, The Elite Sports Centre) 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 Sc ...

and vice executive of Olympiatoppen under

Bjørge Stensbøl Bjørge Stensbøl (born 30 November 1947) is a Norwegian sports official. He was born in Kongsvinger. He served as president of the Norwegian Biathlon Association from 1985 to 1988. From 1991 to 2004 he chaired Olympiatoppen, the elite sport depar ...

. From 2004 to 2007 she worked in

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 Scandi ...

. From 2007 to July 2011 she was the chief executive officer of the

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 took place from 23 February to 6 March 2011
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. 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 ( in the masthead; ; Norwegian for "The Evening Post") is Norway's largest printed newspaper by circulation. It is based in Oslo. It sold 211,769 copies in 2015 (172,029 printed copies according to University of Bergen) and estimated 1.2 million ...

for her work during

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 took place from 23 February to 6 March 2011
— accessed 12 March ...

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

References

1961 births Living people People from Asker Norwegian sports executives and administrators {{Norway-academic-bio-stub