Sven Mollekleiv Email Address

Senior Vice President, Sustainability

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Sven Mollekleiv is Honorary President of the Norwegian Red Cross. Until October 2017 he was President of the Norwegian Red Cross. He was elected in October 2008, after having served as the organisation's Secretary General for 10 years from 1991 to 2001, and was reelected in 2011 and 2014. Mollekleiv has a background in the Norwegian Confederation of Sport before assuming the post of Director of Marketing- and PR at the Norwegian Football Association. His career in DNV (Now DNV GL) started as the HR Director and Member of the Executive Board in 2001, moving onto the position as Head of Corporate Relations and Corporate Social Responsibility in 2002-2012. He is currently Senior Vice President for Sustainability and has served as the global ombudsman for DNV GL for 15 years. Mr. Mollekleiv is member of several boards for various organizations. He is the Vice Chairman of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)’s Special Fund for the Disabled, and served until recently as Chairman of the Board of the The Association of NGOs in Norway. He has also been on the board of Amnesty International and of the Red Cross Nordic United World College. He represented the DNV GL in, among others, the UN Global Compact and in World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).