Solveig Hellebust

Ms. Hellebust (born 1967) has served as EVP People, Process and Digitalization, since July 2021.

Ms. Hellebust joined Yara in December 2020 in the position of Senior Vice President and Chief HR Officer. For almost 11 years (2009-2019), Ms. Hellebust was Group Executive Vice President at DNB with 9 years as Group Executive Vice President HR, followed by the role of Group Executive Vice President People and Operations. She has also held various executive HR roles in Pronova BioPharma (2004-2009) and Telenor (2001-2004). Prior to her executive roles, Ms. Hellebust served three years as Associate Professor of Economics at BI Norwegian Business School.

She holds a Ph.D. degree in Agricultural Trade from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (1998), M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1995) and a Master of Management and Economics (“Siviløkonom”) from BI Norwegian Business School (1992).