Wenche Karin Nistad (born 1952) is a Norwegian businessperson and civil servant. She hails from Sande i Sunnfjord. She took her siv.øk. degree at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in 1976, and worked in Norsk Elektrisk & Brown Boveri from 1976 to 1984. She was the director of

Bergen Bank Bergen Bank was a Norwegian commercial bank in existence between 1975 and 1990. It was created as a merger between Bergens Privatbank (founded in 1855) and Bergens Kreditbank (founded in 1928) while the bank Kvam Privatbank was acquired in 1979. ...

from 1984, and in

Den norske Bank Den norske Bank or DnB was a Norwegian bank that existed between 1990 and 2003 when it merged with Gjensidige NOR to form DnB NOR (now DNB ASA). The bank's headquarters were in Bergen, Norway. DnB was created as a merger between Bergen Bank and ...

after the 1990 merger. From 1994 to 2003 she was the CEO of

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. She then went on to

Hadeland Glassverk Hadeland Glassverk is situated in Jevnaker, Viken 40 km north of Oslo, at the southern tip of lake Randsfjorden. History The glass works was founded in 1762 on land belonging to the Mo estate. Production started in 1765. At the time Norway ...

, but resigned in 2004 after a tenure of only thirteen months. ''

Dagens Næringsliv ''Dagens Næringsliv'' (Norwegian for "Today's Business"), commonly known as ''DN'', is a Norwegian newspaper specializing in business news. , it is the third-largest newspaper in Norway. Editor-in-chief is Janne Johannessen, who was appointed i ...

'' speculated that there was a conflict with owner

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. On 1 June 2005 Nistad assumed office as director of the

Norwegian Guarantee Institute for Export Credits The Norwegian Export Credit Guarantee Agency( no, Garantiinstituttet for eksportkreditt, GIEK) is a public-sector enterprise that reports to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries (MTIF). GIEK promotes Norwegian exports by issuing guarantees ...

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1952 births Living people Norwegian bankers Directors of government agencies of Norway Norwegian School of Economics alumni People from Sogn og Fjordane People from Sunnfjord 20th-century Norwegian businesswomen 20th-century Norwegian businesspeople Women bankers 21st-century Norwegian businesswomen 21st-century Norwegian businesspeople {{Norway-business-bio-stub