Svein Harald Øygard
Svein Harald Øygard is a Norwegian economist that graduated from the University of Oslo in 1984. He was head of the Central Bank of Iceland in 2009, succeeded Davíð Oddsson and was in office from February to August 2009. In 2019 he published a book in Norwegian and Icelandic on the 2008 financial crisis, illustrated with the dramatic boom, bust and recovery of Iceland. The book, In the Combat Zone of Finance, is due to be published in English and Chinese in 2020.
Before becoming Governor he was a director in McKinsey. He started in McKinsey in 1995. From 1990 to 1994, under the third cabinet Brundtland, he was a State Secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Finance. He was reelected as Director in McKinsey & Company September 2009, a role he had until September 2016.
He was the acting governor of Central Bank of Iceland in 2009.
In January 2020, Øygard has published the book . The book has been published in 3 languages.
