Gunn Wærsted

Elected as Chair of the Board of Directors of Telenor ASA 17 December 2015 (effective from 14 January 2016), re-elected 10 May 2017, re-elected 7 May 2019, and re-elected 27 May 2021 for a period of up to two years.

Chair of the People and Governance Committee and member of the Sustainability and Compliance Committee.

Gunn Wærsted served as Group Executive Vice President and member of the Group Executive Management in Nordea AB and as Country Senior Executive in Nordea Bank Norway ASA until January 2016. During her career, she has held a number of senior executive positions within banking, wealth management and insurance, including CEO of SpareBank 1 Gruppen and SpareBank 1 Alliansen, Group Executive Vice President of DNB and CEO of Vital Forsikring.

Gunn Wærsted is chair of the board of directors of Petoro AS and Obton AS (DK). She is member of the board of directors of Nationwide Building Society (UK) and Fidelity International. Wærsted has previously held a number of board positions, including chair of the board of directors of Ferd Holding AS and BI Norwegian Business School and member of the board of directors of Statoil ASA (now Equinor ASA) and Statkraft AS.