Profile

Svein Richard Brandtzæg

Chair, non-executive, independent

Details

Roles

Chair Board of Directors and Chair Nomination and Compensation Committee

Nationality

Norwegian citizen

Education

Post Doc. at Institute of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 1989

PhD at Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology/NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, 1985

Foundation Program in Business Administration (Bedriftsøkonom), Norwegian School of Management/Bedriftsøkonomisk Institut, Trondheim, Norway, 1983

M.Sc., Materials and Chemical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology/NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, 1981

Career

Norsk Hydro ASA*, Norway

2009-2019 President & CEO

2006-2009 Executive Vice President and Member of Corporate Management Board, President of Aluminium Products Business Area, Norway

2003-2006 President, Hydro Aluminium Rolled Products, Cologne, Germany

2002-2003 President, Hydro Aluminium Metal Products, Norway

2000-2001 President, Hydro Magnesium, Brussels, Belgium

1985-2000 R&D, commercial and operational management positions, Norway

External activities and interests

Since 2024 Member of the Board of Directors of Rotork plc*, United Kingdom

Since 2023 Chair of the Council of Ethics, The Norges Bank Investment Management, Norway

Since 2021 Member of the Board of Directors, Mondi Plc*, United Kingdom

2020 - 2023 Vice Chair of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Nomination and Compensation Committee; Swiss Steel Holding*, Switzerland

2020-2023 Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors, Den norske Bank (DnB) ASA*, Norway

2019-2022 Chair of the Board of Directors, Veidekke ASA*, Norway

2019 - 2021 Head of Norwegian Government Committee on Business and Industry development in Norway (Dirstriktsnæringsutvalget), Norwegian Government Committee on Business and Industry development, Norway

2019 - 2020 Member of the Board of Directors, SCR Sibelco*, Belgium

2019-2020 Member of the Norwegian Government Committee on New Ethical, Guidelines for the Norges Bank Investment Management (Norwegian Wealth Fund), Norway

*listed company