Olaug Svarva
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| Born | 21 December 1957 Steinkjer, Norway |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Alma mater | Trondheim Business School, University of Denver |
| Member of | Institute of International Finance |
Norwegian financial analyst who went to the 2015 Bilderberg | |
Olaug Svarva is a Norwegian financial analyst and CEO of the Government Pension Fund of Norway, part of the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, from 2006 until 2018. She attended the 2015 Bilderberg meeting.
Education
Svarva holds a bachelor's degree from Trondheim School of Economics in 1982, and a master of business administration from the University of Denver in 1983. As an adult, she was educated as an authorised portfolio manager at the Norwegian School of Economics in 2004.
Career
From 1985 to 1988, she worked as a financial analyst for Den norske Creditbank and later for the Carnegie Investment Bank. She was appointed to a position at the Government Pension Fund of Norway (Folketrygdfondet) in 1991, and then she served as its Chief executive officer from 2006 to 2018.[1][2]
Board positions
From 2018 she chaired the board of DNB and Norfund.[1] She is Chair of the corporate assembly and the Nomination Committee in Equinor, Deputy chairman of the corporate assembly of Telenor, member of the corporate assembly and the Nomination Committee of Orkla, and on the Nomination Committee of Oslo Stock Exchange Holding.
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2015 | 11 June 2015 | 14 June 2015 | Austria Telfs-Buchen | The 63rd meeting, 128 Bilderbergers met in Austria |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2019 | 22 January 2019 | 25 January 2019 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | "The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one." |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2020 | 21 January 2020 | 24 January 2020 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting. |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2023 | 16 January 2023 | 20 January 2023 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | The theme of the meeting was "Cooperation in a Fragmented World" |
References
- ↑ a b https://snl.no/Olaug_Svarva
- ↑ Zahl, Jan (2008). "Svarva, Olaug". In Åmås, Knut Olav (ed.). Hvem er hvem? (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. pp. 572–573.
