Trond Reinertsen
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Trond R. Reinertsen is a Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 economist and business leader. He has a Ph.D from the University of Utah
University of Utah
The University of Utah, also known as the U or the U of U, is a public, coeducational research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest...

. From 1978 to 1997 he was chief director of the Norwegian Bank Association.

Reinertsen chaired the State Ownership Select Committee which presented its recommendations (NOU 2004:7) in March 2004. He has been on the board of Norges Bank, and was a state secretary in the Ministry of Finance and Customs
Norwegian Ministry of Finance
The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Finance is a Norwegian ministry established in 1814. The ministry is responsible for state finance, including the state budget, taxation and economic policy in Norway. It is led by Sigbjørn Johnsen...

 from 1989 to 1990, during the Norwegian banking crisis. He also headed the ministry's Finance and Credit Department in the 1970s.

Reinertsen owns Smith Stål as well the trading company
Trading company
Trading companies are businesses working with different kinds of products which are sold for consumer, business or government purposes. Trading companies buy a specialized range of products, maintain a stock or a shop, and deliver products to customers....

 E. A. Smith
E. A. Smith
E. A. Smith AS is a Norwegian trading company which owns other companies in the Smith Group . It has its headquarters in Trondheim. It owns Bygger'n, a nationwide building materials chain of approximately 100 stores....

 where he is also the president. E. A. Smith owns the Norwegian building materials chain Bygger'n. Reinertsen is a descendant of Elias Anton Smith and thus belongs to the Cappelen family
Cappelen (family)
Cappelen is the surname of a prominent Norwegian family of merchants, land owners, civil servants and politicians. In the 18th and 19th century, it was one of the so-called patrician families in Norway, i.e...

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