Committee
The committee currently consists of the following members :
Chair: Reidun Jebsen
Reidun Jebsen has lived in Weybridge with her husband and her three children since 1993. She is a freelance translator (English-Norwegian), and was an associate lecturer at Surrey University for 5 years. She studied business at Arizona State University, English at the University of Bergen, and has an MA in translation studies form Surrey University. Reidun has travelled widely, enjoys golf, skiing and other out-door sports as well as the arts. |
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Treaurer: Finn E. Fosse
Finn moved to London in 1997 as part of the Kværner Group's headquarters' move. Finn graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (Norges Handelshøyskole) in 1967 and since then spent 36 years with the Kværner/Aker Kværner Group, where he held various senior operational and financial positions.
Finn, together with his wife Else, are now enjoying retirement in London.
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Member: Nora Svendsen
Nora Svendsen holds a degree in law from the faculty of law, University in Oslo. She studied Social Work at Moray House school of Education in Edinburgh and English at Høgskolen in Stavanger. Nora worked for several years as a sales manager with Norske Shell in Stavanger. She also joined a local law company, Advokatfirmaet Haver & Co in Stavanger for a shorter period. Nora and husband Alec have recently returned to London after four years in Perth, Australia. They have bought a house in Cobham, Surrey where Nora hopes to see more of her two sons who live/study in Aberdeen and Trondheim.
Nora enjoys golfing and rambling and spending time at their summer house "på Sørlandet" in Norway.
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Member: Kjell-Ole Haune
Kjell-Ole Haune is a Norwegian composer and producer living in London. He was one of the first Norwegians to graduate from Paul McCartney's Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in 1999, gaining a BA Hons in Music.
At the age of 24 he had written the story, composed the music and written the lyrics for his own musical-"TONIGHT", which he produced and staged as a concert version in London's West End in October 2000. The Musical reached the finals of the Sony International Search for New Musicals in Cardiff in 2001.
Three concert versions of "TONIGHT" were performed at The Oslo Concert Hall in 2002 together with the Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra and an international cast.
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Member: Reidun Karlsen
Reidun has lived in the UK since arriving as a student here in 1974. Her previous experience has largely been in the Human Resources area and includes 10 years as European HR Manager for a US headquartered software company. She has a BA (Hons) from Reading University and an MBA from Henley Management College.
Reidun is married to Harald and has two sons and two stepdaughters. Her interests include theatre, music and literature but most of her spare time is spent travelling. Since acquiring a mango farm in South Africa in 2004 the majority of the travelling has been to and within Southern Africa. Whilst tending to mangoes she is also trying to learn to play golf.
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Member: Svein Kjellesvik
Svein is currently running his own company with a focus on management consultancy and direct investments in oil field service companies. He has previously had a 25 years career with Schlumberger where he played a leading role in developing the global market for marine seismic mapping for the oil industry. His responsibilities included management of the business of Schlumberger's subsidiary Geco in North & South America (based in Houston) and Europe, Africa & the Middle East (based in London).Svein also served as General Manager for all of Geco's marine seismic activities.
Other postings comprises of top management positions in Geco and Schlumberger including at Schlumberger headquarters in Paris.
Svein holds a MSc from Institute of Applied Physics in Trondheim (NTH). He is married to Vivi and has 2 children. Svein enjoys literature, playing bridge and cross-country skiing.
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Member: Tore I. Hellebo
Tore is from Bergen and has lived in London since 2004. He works as a member of the management team and faculty for ESCP-EAP London campus (European
School of Management). His area of research is strategic human resource management. Prior to ESCP-EAP, Tore worked for General Electric and the Royal Norwegian Navy. He is also the co-founder of an oil & gas venture. Tore is currently a doctorate candidate, he holds an MSc in European Management from
ESCP-EAP and a BA from the Royal Naval Academy. Tore plays golf and football as often as he can, and he regularly enjoys theatre and music in London.
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Member: Amra Koluder
Graduated from Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration ("Norges Handelshøyskole") in 2002, and holds the Master in International Management by Community of European Management Schools ("CEMS") with specialisation in finance.
Amra started working in DnB in 2002 as a management trainee. She has thereafter been working in Shipping, Offshore and Logistics department in Oslo, prior to the transfer to London office in 2007, where she works as a manager in Shipping, Offshore and Logistcs London.
Amra enjoys travelling, tennis, and other out-door sports as well as literature.
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