Jan Erik Langangen (born 11 May 1950) is a Norwegian businessperson and lawyer. He was born in

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as a son of Sigurd Langangen (1918–1973) and Lilly Auen (1919–1990). He graduated with the siv.øk. degree from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in 1973, and then took the

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degree at the

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in 1975. He was hired in the same year as a consultant in

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, and headed the economy and finance department from 1979. He remained here until 1983. He was then the deputy chief executive of ''

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-Norden'' from 1983, and advanced to chief executive officer in 1985. From 1986 to 1988 he chaired the

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. His company merged with UNI in 1991, creating ''UNI

''. After the Skandia raid in 1991–1992, when UNI Storebrand bought shares in

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without acquiring control over the company, and the shares later plummeted, Langangen was forced to leave Storebrand. He had also been the chair of Statoil from 1987, but left Statoil as well. In Statoil he had, together with the board, fired the chief executive Arve Johnsen following the

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. Langangen left the insurance business and became a junior solicitor in the law firm Thune & Co. He was promoted to partner before starting his own law firm Langangen & Engesæth in 1996, and then Langangen & Helset together with his second wife in 2000. He has later had an engagement in Nordic American Tankers. He has been the chair of Norwegian Broker and Södertuna Konferensslott AB, and board member of

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. He has been a minor owner in NorAgra, a company that invested in

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n agriculture. He has also been an owner in

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and Helilift. From 1998 to 2001 Langangen headed the Norwegian Values Commission. He had become a Christian and stated that his time as a business executive was a "wrong course". He resides in

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on a family farm.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Langangen, Jan Erik 1950 births Living people People from Porsgrunn University of Oslo alumni Norwegian School of Economics alumni Norwegian businesspeople in insurance Norwegian businesspeople in the oil industry 20th-century Norwegian lawyers Storebrand people Equinor people