Kjell Roland

Mr. Kjell Roland was for 12 years CEO of Norfund, the Norwegian government’s Development Finance Institution (DFI). Norfund grew the portfolio from 3,5 to 25 Billion NOK during this period of time, of which 50% was clean energy throughout Emerging Markets . Before joining Norfund in 2006, Mr. Roland spent two decades working as partner and CEO of the consultancy firm ECON Management AS and ECON Analysis, having co-founded ECON in 1986. He holds an MSc from the University of Oslo and has been a visiting scholar at the Department of Economics and the Department of Operations Research at Stanford University.