Svein Aaser (born 7 October 1946) is a former

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of DnB NOR, the largest financial group in

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. He resigned on 31 December 2006. He is chair of

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and the

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Early career

Aaser was born in

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and was educated at the

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(NHH) where he received his

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in 1970. By 1976, he had graduated from the Swiss IMD Business School's Program for Executive Development. After obtaining his MBA (1970) he worked his way up in businesses starting as assistant to deputy managing director for Tank Nielsen, M. Peterson & Søn, Moss. From there he became marketing manager of Sarpsborg Papp, Div. Kartong, managing director for NORA matprodukter and of Storebrand Skade.

Later career

During a period of ten years starting in 1987 he was president and CEO of Hafslund Nycomed who changed its name after the acquisition of

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. The year after saw him deputy CEO and chief executive officer of a subsidiary company called Imaging Nycomed Amersham. In 1998 he was appointed CEO of

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, later the merged DnB NOR. In 2008 he was appointed chairman of the board of the

. He has also been the chairman of

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, but stepped down in January 2010. He also chairs Statkraft. From 2012 to 2015 he was chairman of the board of

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References

1946 births Living people Norwegian bankers DNB ASA people People from Fredrikstad Norwegian School of Economics alumni International Institute for Management Development alumni {{Norway-business-bio-stub