Geir Karlsen (born in 1965) is a Norwegian

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. He is best known as the CEO and former CFO of

Norwegian Air Shuttle Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA, trading as Norwegian, is a Norwegian low-cost airline and Norway's largest airline. It is the fourth largest low-cost carrier in Europe behind Wizz Air, easyJet and Ryanair, the second-largest airline in Scandinavia ...

, Scandinavia's largest airline, and Europe's third largest

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Biography

Before Norwegian Air Shuttle, Geir Karlsen worked for

Golden Ocean Group Golden Ocean Group is a Bermuda-registered, Norway- based dry bulk shipping company. The company was created as a demerged part of Frontline in 2004 and is listed on Nasdaq and the Oslo Stock Exchange Oslo Stock Exchange ( no, Oslo Børs) ( ...

and

Songa Offshore Songa Offshore SE is a European offshore drilling contractor founded in 2005 with offices in Cyprus, Stavanger, Oslo, Houston, Kuala Lumpur, Aberdeen, and Singapore. History Songa Offshore AS was founded in January 2005 with the purchase of the ...

. Then, he held the position Group CFO at London-based Navig8 Group. From April 2018 to July 2019, he was Chief Financial Officer of the Scandinavian airline. Geir Karlsen has a degree in business administration from

BI Norwegian Business School BI Norwegian Business School () is the largest business school in Norway and the second largest in all of Europe. BI has in total four campuses with the main one located in Oslo. The university has 845 employees consisting of an academic staff of ...

.Geir Magne Karlsen
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References

1965 births Living people BI Norwegian Business School alumni Norwegian airline chief executives Norwegian Air Shuttle People from Sykkylven {{Norway-business-bio-stub