Minister of Fisheries
What position did Eivind Reiten take from Oct 1985 to May 1986?
Eivind Reiten Eivind Kristofer Reiten ( born 2 April 1953 ) is a Norwegian economist , corporate officer and politician for the Centre Party . He served as Minister of Fisheries from 1985-1986 and Minister of Petroleum and Energy from 1989-1990 , before entering a career in business . Reiten served as the Director General ( CEO ) of Norsk Hydro between 2001 and 2009 , after which he took up the chairmanship of Norske Skog . Eivind Reiten was also Chairman of StatoilHydro for four days until he resigned from his position after Norsk Hydro had been accused of corruption . Political career . Reiten was born in Midsund as the son of Kristofer Reiten , a farmer and fisher , and housewife Kjellaug Opstad . He enrolled as a student in 1972 , and graduated from the University of Oslo in 1978 with a degree in economics . He worked as a civil servant from 1979 to 1982 , and as a secretary for the Centre Party from 1982 to 1983 . He was then brought into the government as state secretary to the Minister of Finance from 1983 to 1985 . He then became Minister of Fisheries from 1985 to 1986 as part of the Second cabinet Willoch , and Minister of Petroleum and Energy from 1989 to 1990 as part of Cabinet Syse . In his last political position , he was responsible for the deregulation of the electricity market in Norway . Having chaired the Centre Youth , the youth wing of the Centre Party , from 1979 to 1981 , he served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from 1985 to 1989 . Business career . Reiten started working for Norsk Hydro in 1988 , heading the energy division from that year , and becoming senior vice president of special projects in 1991 . From 1992 he led the refining and marketing division , and from 1998 the aluminum division . He was appointed executive vice president for light metals in 1999 . He succeeded Egil Myklebust as chief executive officer in 2001 . He was a member of the board of the Bank of Norway from 1991 to 1994 and Norske Skogindustrier from 1997 to 2000 , and has chaired the board of Norway Post ( 1996–1999 ) and Telenor ( 2000–2001 ) . He has attended the Bilderberg meetings . He is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences . Libya corruption case . As part of the merger between Statoil and the oil and gas division of Norsk Hydro , Reiten was appointed chair of the merged StatoilHydro that merged on 1 October 2007 . Four days later Reiten withdrew from the seat . The reason was that it was uncertain whether or not he knew about a corruption case Hydro had been accused of , where a Libyan consulting company and the consultant Abdurrazag Gammudi had been paid , used to make bribes , after the Hydro take-over of Saga Petroleum in 1999 . Stated Reiten , it was in no-ones interest that he retain a conflict of interest by retaining the seat of chair in the company that would investigate himself . The case had arisen on 26 September , after a Hydro employee had leaked information about the matter ; it had not been identified as part of the due diligence performed by Statoil prior to the merger . He was replaced by his deputy , Marit Arnstad , who is also a former Minister of Petroleum and Energy from the Centre Party . The investigation from StatoilHydro concluded that Reiten was informed about this during 2000 and 2001 , while the investigation in Norsk Hydro concluded that Reiten did not know about the corruption . Since the Norsk Hydro investigation—that included checking 1.5 million documents—could not show that Reiten knew about the corruption , Hydro Chairman Terje Vareberg confirmed that Reiten would not be removed from his position . However , two executives of StatoilHydro were required to leave immediately . Leaving Norsk Hydro . In January 2009 Reiten announced that he was stepping down as Chief Executive of Norsk Hydro from 30 March 2009 , with executive vice president Svein Richard Brandtzæg taking over . Reiten has since been nominated to replace Kim Wahl as Chairman of Norske Skog at the companys annual general meeting in April 2009 . Personal life . Reiten is married and has two children . He resides in Oslo .