Jan Einar Greve (11 May 1933 – 12 January 2022) was a Norwegian lawyer.

Life and career

Greve was born on 11 May 1933. He graduated from the

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as cand.jur. in 1959, and worked as a solicitor from 1961, and a barrister with a mandate to work with cases in the

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from 1963. He was the chairman of the board of Bergen Bank (1970–1986, including its predecessor Bergens Privatbank), Rieber & Søn (1987–2000), Vesta Forsikring (1988–2003), Høyteknologisenteret (1989–2022) and ''

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''. In 2007 he was proclaimed Knight, First Class of the

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. He died on 12 January 2022, at the age of 88.

References

1933 births 2022 deaths Norwegian businesspeople 20th-century Norwegian lawyers University of Oslo alumni Order of Saint Olav {{law-bio-stub