Berit Kjøll (born 30 November 1955) is a Norwegian economist,

corporate officer A corporation or body corporate is an individual or a group of people, such as an association or company, that has been authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law as "born out of st ...

and sports administrator. She served as the president of the Norwegian Confederation of Sports from 2019 to 2023.

Early and personal life

Born on 30 November 1955, Kjøll has studied

market economy A market economy is an economic system in which the decisions regarding investment, production, and distribution to the consumers are guided by the price signals created by the forces of supply and demand. The major characteristic of a mark ...

at Norges Markedshøyskole, and

tourism Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the Commerce, commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. World Tourism Organization, UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as ...

at the Oppland Distriktshøgskole. She has further education in administration from

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate school, graduate business school of Harvard University, a Private university, private Ivy League research university. Located in Allston, Massachusetts, HBS owns Harvard Business Publishing, which p ...

Career

Kjøll has held leading administrative positions in Universitetenes Reisebyrå, Norgesparken with

Tusenfryd Tusenfryd (lit. "Thousand Joys", also Bellis perennis, Common Daisy) is an amusement park at Vinterbro, Norway. The park is located 20 kilometers south of Oslo. Two of the longest motorway corridors in Norway, European route E6, E6 and European ...

and Vikinglandet,

Flytoget Flytoget (') is a high-speed rail, high-speed airport rail link, airport railway service connecting Oslo Airport, Gardermoen, Oslo Airport to Oslo Central Station. Run by Flytoget AS (formerly NSB Gardermobanen AS), it operates on the high-speed ...

Steen & Strøm Steen & Strøm is a Scandinavian retail and real estate company that owns and operates 10 shopping centres in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. It has been a member of the International Association of Department Stores from 1940 to 1992, with various ...

and

Telenor Telenor ASA ( or ) is a Norwegian majority state-owned multinational telecommunications company headquartered at Fornebu in Bærum, close to Oslo. It is one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications companies with operations worldwi ...

. She was appointed director of

Huawei Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ("Huawei" sometimes stylized as "HUAWEI"; ; zh, c=华为, p= ) is a Chinese multinational corporationtechnology company in Longgang, Shenzhen, Longgang, Shenzhen, Guangdong. Its main product lines include teleco ...

Norway in 2011, and assumed this position until 2019. She served as chairman of the board of the

Norwegian Trekking Association The Norwegian Trekking Association (, DNT) is a Norwegian association which maintains mountain trails and cabins in Norway. The association was founded on 21 January 1868 with the scope "to help and develop tourism in this country". Today the goa ...

from 2012 to 2018, and in

SJ Norge SJ is the primary passenger train operator in Sweden. A wholly state-owned company operated for-profit under market conditions, SJ operates various services across Sweden. SJ's operations include high-speed trains, intercity trains, night trains ...

AS. She has been board member of

Hurtigruten AS Hurtigruten AS is a Norwegian coastal ferry service and cruise line headquartered in Oslo, Norway. It is the larger of two companies currently operating ''Hurtigruten'', the coastal ferry service along the Norwegian coast from which it takes it ...

A and

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, as well as ,

DNB ASA DNB Bank ASA (formerly DnB NOR ASA) is Norway's largest financial services group, with total combined assets of more than NOK 3.6 trillion and a market capitalisation NOK 400 billion as of 2024. DNB's head office is located in Oslo. The two la ...

Scandinavian Airlines The Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS), commonly known as Scandinavian Airlines, is the national airline of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. It is part of SAS Group and is headquartered in Solna, Sweden. Including its subsidiaries SAS Link and ...

, Aker Holding, Norges Varemesse AS and

Oslo University Hospital Oslo University Hospital (; OUS) is a university hospital in Oslo, Norway. With over 24,000 employees it is List of hospitals by staff, the largest hospital organization in Europe. It is affiliated with the University of Oslo Faculty of Medicine, F ...

. She was voted president of the Norwegian Confederation of Sports in 2019, edging out

Sven Mollekleiv Sven Mollekleiv (born 2 March 1956) is a Norwegian organisational leader and Honorary President of the Norwegian Red Cross. He served as Secretary General of the Norwegian Red Cross from 1991 to 2001 and President on a voluntary basis from Octobe ...

with a vote margin of two. She sought re-election in 2023, but lost to her opponent Zaineb Al-Samarai in a 138–29 vote.

References

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