Geir Karlsen (born in 1965) is a Norwegian

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. He is best known as the CEO and former CFO of

Norwegian Air Shuttle Norwegian Air Shuttle Aksjeselskap, ASA, trading as Norwegian, is a Norway, Norwegian Low-cost carrier, low-cost airline and Norway's largest airline. It is the fourth largest low-cost carrier in Europe behind Wizz Air, easyJet and Ryanair, the ...

, Scandinavia's largest airline, and Europe's third largest

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Biography

Before Norwegian Air Shuttle, Geir Karlsen worked for Golden Ocean Group and Songa Offshore. Then, he held the position Group CFO at London-based Navig8 Group. From April 2018 to July 2019, he was

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of the Scandinavian airline. Geir Karlsen has a degree in

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from

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 ...

.Geir Magne Karlsen
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1965 births Living people BI Norwegian Business School alumni Norwegian airline chief executives Norwegian Air Shuttle People from Sykkylven {{Norway-business-bio-stub