Harald Arnkværn (born 5 February 1939) is a Norwegian barrister and businessperson. He was born in

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. He finished his secondary education in 1957 and took the

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degree in 1964. He was a deputy judge in Ringerike District Court from 1964 to 1965, then a junior solicitor from 1965 to 1972 with a study leave at the University of Illinois Law School from 1967 to 1968. He took the lawyer's license in 1966 and was a barrister (a lawyer with access to

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cases) from 1972. He was employed in

Christiania Spigerverk Christiania Spigerverk is a steel company which was founded in Oslo Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while ...

from 1965 to 1974 and

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from 1974 to 1988. In 1988 he was acting chief executive officer of DnC. He then continued his career as a barrister in the law firm Haavind Vislie. He succeeded Knut Rasmussen as chair of the supervisory council in

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in 1992. He has also been chair of Christiania Bank og Kreditkasse from 1996 to 2001,

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, Schøyen Gruppen, the

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, Fjellinjen, A. Falkenberg Eftf. and Afas. He became corporate council leader in the

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in 2001.

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