Jan Thomsen

Dr. Jan Thomsen is an Executive Director & Chief Audit Officer at Norges Bank Investment Management.
Dr. Thomsen comes to NBIM from the position of Chief Risk Officer in Orkla ASA. He has previously held several management positions in Det Norske Veritas, most recently as director/head of the Marketing Sector Industry and previously as head of business development for the consulting business, information systems and risk management.
He has also worked as a consultant, senior consultant and manager at Arthur Andersen/Andersen Consulting, and as a teaching assistant at the Norwegian Institute of Technology.
He has a PhD in risk management and change management from Stanford University (USA).
He is also a Civil Engineer in technical physics from the Norwegian Institute of Technology and has Business Management and Strategy from IMD (Switzerland) and INSEAD (France).