Randi Runa Svenkerud Flesland (born 17 November 1955 in Oslo) is a Norwegian civil servant.

Randi Runa Svenkerud Flesland
Flesland in March 2013
Born (1955-11-17) 17 November 1955 (age 68)
NationalityNorwegians
OccupationCivil servant

Flesland was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, with education in economics, with addition of psychology and pedagogy in the universities of Oslo and Davis, California. She had several leading positions in Norges Statsbaner,[1] for 17 yrs until 2000, such as head of Intercity, Financial director and finally deputy CEO. She then became director of the Norwegian National Airport Administration; later the agency became Avinor. She was in charge of a substantial restructurering of work processes and increased efficiency in order to make financial room for large safety investments. She resigned December 2005 after a long conflict of interests with the trade unions for traffic controllers.[1] She was instead hired in IBM. In 2008, she became the new director of the Norwegian Consumer Council.[2] She has also held several executive board positions, mostly within transport and public health.[citation needed]

She shares the name Flesland with Norway's second largest airport.[citation needed]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Meyer, Henrik D. (14 December 2005). "- En seier for flysikkerheten". Dagens Næringsliv (in Norwegian). Retrieved 5 October 2008.
  2. ^ "Flesland i ny sjefsjobb" (Press release). Norwegian Consumer Council. 28 October 2008. Retrieved 16 January 2009.
Civic offices
Preceded by President of Norges Statsbaner (acting)
2000
Succeeded by
Arne Wam (acting)
Preceded by President of Avinor
2000–2005
Succeeded by
Nic. Nilsen (acting)
Preceded by Director of the Norwegian Consumer Council
2008–2019
Succeeded by