Håkon is a senior corporate and public affairs professional with extensive experience from the telecom and digital industries in Europe and Asia.

He is currently Head of Partner and External Relations Asia for the Telenor Group, one of the region’s largest mobile network operators.  Prior to this, Håkon served as Telenor’s Acting Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer and Senior Vice President and Head of Group Public & Regulatory Affairs.

Håkon serves on the Board of Directors of several Telenor Group companies in Singapore, Telenor Myanmar, Telenor Pakistan, Dtac in Thailand, Grameenphone in Bangladesh and Digi in Malaysia where he serves as the Chair of the Board.

He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, where he also studied public relations. Håkon resides in Singapore – a city he has called home for the last 20 years.