Sverre Quale (born 21 July 1956 in

Mo i Rana (Norwegian language, Norwegian; ) or (and unofficially , ) is a List of towns and cities in Norway, city, and the administrative centre of Rana Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the Helgeland region of Nordland, just sou ...

Helgeland Helgeland is the most southerly Districts of Norway, district in Northern Norway. Generally speaking, Helgeland refers to the part of Nordland county that is located south of the Arctic Circle. It is bordered in the north by the Saltfjellet moun ...

) is a Norwegian

civil servant The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil service personnel hired rather than elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership. A civil service offic ...

and businessperson. He grew up in

and currently lives in

Billingstad Billingstad is a village in Asker municipality, Akershus county, Norway. It is close to the border of Bærum and Vestmarka (Oslomarka), Vestmarka and is 18 km west of Oslo. It has 2,349 residents (2006). The area is both residential and com ...

. He is a siv. ing. by education, graduating from the

Norwegian Institute of Technology The Norwegian Institute of Technology ( Norwegian: ''Norges tekniske høgskole'', NTH) was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1910, and existed as an independent technical university for 58 years, after which it was ...

in 1982. He was the director of safety in

Saga Petroleum Saga Petroleum ASA was a Norwegian upstream petroleum company established in 1972 that was acquired by Norsk Hydro in 1999. In October 2007 it was made part of Statoil. The company was the only fully private oil company in Norway. It had part ...

from 1990 to 1999. He directed the

Norwegian Railway Inspectorate The Norwegian Railway Authority () is a Norwegian government agency responsible for practical control and supervision of rail transport in Norway, including railways, tramways, rapid transits, heritage railways and side tracks. The agency was cr ...

from 1999 to 2002, during the time of the Åsta train accident. He then spent one year as director of safety in Avinor, before sitting as director of the

Norwegian Accident Investigation Board The Norwegian Safety Investigation Authority (NSIA; , SHK) is the government agency responsible for investigating transport-related accidents within Norway. Specifically, it investigates aviation accidents and incidents, rail accidents, mariti ...

from 2003 to 2006. In 2006 he became CEO of

Avinor Avinor AS is a state-owned aksjeselskap, limited company that operates most of the civil airports in Norway. The Norwegian state, via the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications, controls 100 percent of the share capital. Avinor wa ...

. He has also chairman of the board of Oslo Lufthavn and board member of

Gassco Gassco is a Norwegian state owned company that operates of natural gas pipes and associated riser platforms and land-based facilities transporting annually of 100 billion cubic meter (bcm) of natural gas from the Norwegian continental shelf ...

. In 2010 he was announced as the new CEO of

Multiconsult Multiconsult is an engineering consultancy with approximately 2800 employees operating in Norway, elsewhere in Europe and globally. The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. In addition to its headquarters in Skøyen, Oslo Oslo ( or ; ...

. He was succeeded in November 2010 by acting CEO Nic. Nilsen.

References

1956 births Living people People from Rana, Norway Directors of government agencies of Norway Avinor people Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni Norwegian businesspeople in the oil industry {{Norway-business-bio-stub