Ragnar Halvorsen

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{{Short description|Norwegian businessman and organizational leader (1924–2019)}}

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| birth_place = Fredrikstad, Norway

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| death_place = Oslo, Norway

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Ragnar Halvorsen (23 May 1924 – 15 February 2019){{Cite web|url=https://www.nho.no/om-nho/artikler/nhos-forste-president-er-dod/|title = NHOs første president er død| date=20 February 2019 }}Death announcement, Aftenposten 20 February 2019, p. 29. was a Norwegian businessman and organizational leader.

Halvorsen was born in Fredrikstad to Alf Ragnvald Halvorsen and Ellen Fredrikke Jensen, and married Anna Ødegård in 1949.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Ragnar Halvorsen |encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|first=Gunnar |last=Gran |authorlink=Gunnar Gran |editor=Helle, Knut|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=https://nbl.snl.no/Ragnar_Halvorsen | language=Norwegian |accessdate=12 February 2017}}

He was assigned with the dynamite production company Norsk Sprængstofindustri/Dyno Industrier from 1961 to 1995, as CEO from 1981 to 1987, and chairman of the board from 1987 to 1995. During this period Dyno developed into a major international company, with subsidiaries in about forty countries. Halvorsen chaired the Norwegian Export Council from 1987. He was the first President of the employers' organization Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise, for four years from its foundation in 1989 through a merge between the Norwegian Employers' Confederation and the Federation of Norwegian Industries. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1987.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Ragnar Halvorsen |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |editor-last=Godal | editor-first=Anne Marit | editor-link=Anne Marit Godal |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Ragnar_Halvorsen |language=Norwegian |accessdate=12 February 2017}}