Øystein Olsen (born 8 January 1952) is a Norwegian public servant who served as

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of the Central Bank of Norway from 2011 to 2022.

Career

Olsen is cand.oecon. from the

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in 1977 Olsen came to the Central Bank governor position from his previous rank as Managing Director of

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(SSB). He took on this position from 1 January 2005, succeeding Svein Longva. The SSB position is a fixed term of six years. He has also previously worked in SSB as researcher, senior researcher, and head of the Oil and energy group from 1977 to 1990. After a year in ECON, Center for Economic Analysis, Olsen returned to the SSB as research director in the years 1991 to 1994. From 1996 to 1999 he was appointed as research director and head of the research department in the same place. From 1999 until he became director of the SSB, he was deputy secretary in the Economics Department of the

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. From 1993 to 1998 Olsen was professor II at Norwegian School of Management. In August 2021, he announced his intention to step down after his 12th annual speech in February 2022, about a year before his term as governor was meant to end. Olsen stated that he thought the timing was acceptable due to him turning 70 in January.

Other activities

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(IMF), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors *

, Member of the Board

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Øystein Olsen vert ny administrerande direktør i SSB
* 1952 births Living people Governors of the Central Bank of Norway Norwegian economists Directors of government agencies of Norway University of Oslo alumni {{Norway-academic-bio-stub