Knut M. Ore

Knut Magne Ore (born 1946) is a Norwegian business executive.

He took the siv.øk. degree at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in 1970, a Master of Business Administration degree at the University of California, Berkeley in 1971 and a degree in Tax Law at the University of Oslo in 1978. He has spent most of his career in Deloitte & Touche, where he was a partner from 1985 to 2002. In 2002 he became owner and CEO of the company Universal Presentkort, Oslo.

He was chairman the board of directors of the Norwegian Trekking Association (DNT) from 1986 to 1994, and was appointed Honorary Member in 2008. He has served as chairman of the board of the Norwegian Glacier Museum from 1994 to 2002, and a board member of Statskog from 1995 to 2001 and the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History from 2000 to 2004.

From 2002, to 2013 he was chairman of the board of Kings Bay AS and AS Bjørnøen. In 2013 he was appointed Honorary Citizen of Ny-Ålesund. He was one of the founders of the Ny-Ålesund Symposium at Svalbard in 2005 and served as Chairman of the Board of this international climate conference until 2014.

He is member of the Advisory Committee of Arctic Frontiers

He has served on the board of the Olav Thon Foundation since 1991 and of FH-Norge since 2005. In 2011 he was elected chairman of the board of Drammen Municipal Pension Fund DKP

He was chairman for the project that the Norwegian Trekking Association did on behalf of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2004 to 2012 to assist in developing eco-friendly tourism in the Republic of Kyrgyzstan. He was heavily involved in the establishing of Trekking Union of Kyrgyzstan (TUK).

Knut M. Ore has been a lecturer at numerous courses in environmental matters, financial reporting and control and written a large number of articles on these topics.