Sigve Brekke (born 15 December 1959) is the President and

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Group, an international telecommunications company present in 13 markets across the Nordic region, Europe and Asia.

Telenor career

Sigve Brekke has been a member of the Executive Management team of

Group since 2008, and succeeded Jon Fredrik Baksaas as president and CEO in August 2015. From 2008 to 2015, Sigve Brekke was responsible for Telenor's operations in Asia. Sigve Brekke joined Telenor in 1999 as Manager Business Development and later managing director of its Singapore office. He worked as co-Chief Executive Officer of Thai mobile operator dtac (part of the Telenor Group) from 2002 to 2005, and chief executive officer in Dtac from 2005 to 2008. He has also worked as managing director of Uninor from 2010 to 2013. From September 2014 to March 2015, Sigve Brekke served as interim CEO at dtac.

Political career

Prior to joining Telenor, Sigve Brekke was a politician. He was the secretary-general of the Workers' Youth League from 1989 to 1992. In March 1993 he was appointed as a political adviser in the

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, being a part of Brundtland's Third Cabinet. In November 1993 he was promoted to State Secretary in the Ministry of Defence, where he served until 1996.

Education

He holds a Mid-Career Master in Public Administration (MC/MPA) - a one-year program - from the

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. He has also been an associate research fellow at the same school.

Controversies regarding education

After entering the position as CEO in Telenor it was revealed that Sigve Brekke did not complete an undergraduate degree in

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at the Telemark University College (now University of South-Eastern Norway), although he in an interview with business magazine

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had claimed to have done so. Brekke quickly admitted that his educational background had been misrepresented, though not deliberately. As of 19 November 2015 " Ministry of Trade and Industry nformedthat they now have asked the board of directors of Telenor about an evaluation of the process leading to hiring Brekke as chief of the corporation". Brekke has previously claimed that he held a ''Degree in Agricultural Sciences'' from Agricultural College Kongsberg, that Brekke told ''

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said that " Bloomberg and

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claim in their profiles on Brekke that he has two bachelor degrees",Did not check the entire resumé when rumors surfaced about cheating
/ref> while in reality he has none.

References

Telenor Group Executive Management (on telenor.com)

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brekke, Sigve 1959 births Living people Harvard Kennedy School alumni Norwegian expatriates in the United States Norwegian state secretaries Labour Party (Norway) politicians Telenor