Kristin Skogen Lund (born 11 August 1966) is a

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business leader. She became CEO of

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ASA in December 2018. She was the Director General of the

Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise The Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise ( no, Næringslivets Hovedorganisasjon, NHO) is an employers' organisation in Norway with more than 30,000 members. It was founded in 1989 as a merger of the Federation of Norwegian Industries, the Norwegi ...

(NHO) from 2012 to 2018.

Background and education

Kristin Skogen Lund grew up in Oslo. She attended

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in Eugene, where she obtained the BA with honours in International Studies and Business Administration. She obtained her MBA from

INSEAD INSEAD, a contraction of "Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires" () is a non-profit business school that maintains campuses in Europe ( Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore), the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, UAE), and North America (San ...

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, France. Kristin Skogen Lund graduated from the Norwegian Defence University College Executive Programme during fall 2018.

Business career

From 1992 to 1995, Kristin Skogen Lund worked as a manager in Lever Europe. In 1995, she was hired in the

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and was the director of Coca-Cola Beverages Sweden from 1997 to 1998. In 1998, she was hired b
Scandinavia Online
and became CEO before the turn of the year. From 2003 to 2004 she was the CEO of

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. In 2004, she moved to Aftenposten AS—publisher of the newspaper ''

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''—and in 2007 became CEO.Profile
at Orkla.no. Retrieved on 26 November 2008. Aftenposten AS is owned 100% by

. Lund has held various board memberships within the Schibsted Group and in the

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, and she has been a member of the board of the

Orkla Group Orkla ASA is a Norwegian conglomerate operating in the Nordic region, Eastern Europe, Asia and the US. At present, Orkla operates in the branded consumer goods, aluminium solutions and financial investment sectors. Orkla ASA is listed on the Os ...

. In 2009, Kristin Skogen Lund left ''Aftenposten'' to become EVP (director) for Nordic activities within

Telenor Telenor ASA ( or ) is a Norwegian majority state-owned multinational telecommunications company headquartered at Fornebu in Bærum, close to Oslo. It is one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications companies with operations worldwide, ...

, in which capacity she served from February 2010 to November 2012. This included portfolio responsibility for Telenor Norway, Telenor Denmark, Telenor Sweden, Telenor Broadcast, Telenor Holding, Telenor Media and Content Services, and Telenor Digital Services, Her portfolio from September 2011 also included responsibility for development and digital services. From 2008, Skogen Lund served as Vice President of the

. In April 2010, she became acting president, after

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suddenly stepped down. During summer 2010 she was formally elected as president of the organization for two years. In 2012, she became the Director general of the

Other engagements and awards

Skogen Lund was a board member in

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from 2013 until 2018. She is a member of the Audit Committee. She is Chairman of the board of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, and serves on the board of Mozilla and AutoStore ASA. Since 2015 Skogen Lund has been a member of The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate and the ILO Global Commission of the future of work. Since the same year, she has also been a member of the Executive Committee and heading the Norwegian delegation of the

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. She was presented with the insignia of Knight of the

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in 2019, and recently headed the government appointed commission revising the Norwegian pension system. ''Fortune'' in 2011 cited Skogen Lund among the "Fortune 50 Most Powerful Women in Business"— Skogen Lund being number 38 in the ranking. She was similarly featured on the "10 Global women on the rise" list. The Norwegian business magazine Kapital has two years in a row put her on the top of the list of Norway's most powerful women. In September 2012 it was made public that she will change position from president to chief executive of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise from 1 November 2012.

References

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