Harald Espedal (born 4 March 1972) is a Norwegian businessperson.

Life and career

Harald Espedal is the son of Tor Espedal and stood out in his early teenage years as a stock trade prodigy. He was born in

Stavanger Stavanger, officially the Stavanger Municipality, is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Norway. It is the third largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the ...

, graduated from the

Norwegian School of Economics The Norwegian School of Economics () or NHH is a business school situated in Bergen, Norway. It was founded in 1936 as Norway's first business school and is the leading teaching and research institution in Norway for the fields of management and ...

in 1996, and spent his early career in SR-Bank, Vesta Forsikring, and

Arthur Andersen Arthur Andersen LLP was an American accounting firm based in Chicago that provided auditing, tax advising, consulting and other professional services to large corporations. By 2001, it had become one of the world's largest multinational corpo ...

's Stavanger branch. He was the chief executive officer of Skagenfondene from 2002 to 2014, has chaired the board of

Lyse Energi Lyse (named after Lysefjorden in Ryfylke) is an industrial and multi-utility company based in Jæren and Ryfylke, Norway. The company has a yearly normal production of 9.5 TWh of hydroelectric power, develops and maintains the power grid in 14 m ...

, Sandnes Sparebank, and Espedal & Co, deputy chair of the

Oslo Stock Exchange Oslo Stock Exchange () (OSE: OSLO) is a stock exchange within the Nordic countries and offers Norway's only regulated markets for securities trading today. The stock exchange offers a full product range including equities, derivatives and fixed ...

and

Stavanger Concert Hall Stavanger Konserthus or ''Stavanger Concert Hall'' is a concert hall in Stavanger, Norway. It was officially opened by Crown Prince Haakon on 15 September 2012. The financing of the building was shared by the municipality of Stavanger, the county ...

, and has been a board member of Aspelin Ramm and the

Norwegian National Opera and Ballet The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet () is a Norwegian opera company and ballet company. The first fully professional company each for opera and ballet in Norway and the only such professional organisation in the country, it is currently resi ...

. He has also invested heavily in

Viking FK Viking Fotballklubb, commonly known as Viking or Viking Stavanger internationally, is a Norwegian professional football club from the city of Stavanger. The club was founded in 1899. It is one of the most successful clubs in Norwegian football, ...

References

1972 births Living people Businesspeople from Stavanger Norwegian School of Economics alumni Norwegian businesspeople {{Norway-business-bio-stub