Harald Torfinn Thune (born 12 May 1952) is a Norwegian civil servant.

He was born in Gulen

Gulen

is a municipality in the southwestern part of Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sogn. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Eivindvik...

. He took his education at the University of Bergen

University of Bergen

The University of Bergen is located in Bergen, Norway. Although founded as late as 1946, academic activity had taken place at Bergen Museum as far back as 1825. The university today serves more than 14,500 students...

, graduating with the cand.jur. degree in 1978. He then embarked on a career as a civil servant.

Thune was hired in the County Governor's Office in Rogaland

Rogaland

is a county in Western Norway, bordering Hordaland, Telemark, Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder. It is the center of the Norwegian petroleum industry, and as a result of this, Rogaland has the lowest unemployment rate of any county in Norway, 1.1%...

 in 1986. From December 1991 to August 1993 he was acting County Governor, as Tora Aasland

Tora Aasland

Tora Aasland is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party.She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Akershus in 1985, and was re-elected on one occasion....

 had been appointed in 1991 but served as a member of Parliament until 1993. In 2007, when Aasland was appointed to the Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet, Thune was appointed as acting County Governor again.