Rune Bjerke (born 17 June 1960) is a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Labour Party. Rune is son of Juul Bjerke and brother of

Siri Bjerke Siri Bjerke (19 June 1958 – 11 February 2012) was a Norwegian politician (Norwegian Labour Party, Labour Party). She was substitute member of the Stortinget, Norwegian legislature between 1997 and 2005, state secretary in the Norwegian Ministr ...

. Bjerke studied economics at the

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, and has a master's degree in

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from

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. From 1992 to 1995 he was city commissioner (''byråd'') of finance in the city cabinet of

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. He has previously been advisor in the

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, director in Scancem International and chief executive officer in Hafslund. From 2007 to 2019 he was chief executive officer of DNB. He is the chairman of the board of Doorstep, and of both the Norwegian Financial Services Association and Finance Norway. Bjerke is married to the Labour party politician Libe Rieber-Mohn.

References

*Businessweek executive profil

*Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation onlin

*Financial Time

1960 births Living people University of Oslo alumni Harvard Kennedy School alumni Labour Party (Norway) politicians Politicians from Oslo Norwegian chief executives Norwegian bankers DNB ASA people Norwegian expatriates in the United States {{norway-business-bio-stub