Torvild Aakvaag

Torvild Aakvaag was a Norwegian businessperson.
He was born in Bærum, and was a cand.jur. by education. He was employed in the Norwegian [Ministry of Foreign Affairs] from 1951 to 1956, but left for a career in Norsk Hydro. He was promoted to head of the judicial department in 1967, and head of the petroleum department in 1970. He advanced to become assisting director-general in 1977, and director-general in 1984. He succeeded Odd Narud. He stayed in this position until 1991; after this he was chairman of the board from 1992 to 1997. He has also been a board member of Orkla Borregaard, Storebrand and Nobel Industrier, and chaired Hydro Aluminium and Korn- og Foderstof Kompagniet.
He was decorated as a Commander of the Norwegian Order of St. Olav">Norway">Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1989.
At the time of his death, he had a reported net worth of NOK 42 billion through privately held asset vehicles and left the vast majority of his fortune to his grandson, Magnus Aakvaag.