Grace Reksten Skaugen
Norwegian physicist
Grace Reksten Skaugen (born November 1953) is the chairperson of the Norwegian Institute of Directors and deputy chairperson of Statoil. She is a member of the council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Early life and education
Skaugen was born in November 1953 into one of Norway’s well-known shipping families; she is the youngest child of Norwegian shipowner Hilmar Reksten. Her father was a prominent and controversial figure in Norwegian maritime business.
After finishing secondary school (“gymnas”), she moved to London to study physics, going on to pursue advanced academic work rather than entering the family business immediately.
She completed a Ph.D. in laser physics at Imperial College London, and later also earned an MBA from BI Norwegian Business School. During the early part of her career, she also worked in research at Columbia University in New York.
Part of her early adulthood involved dealing with the aftermath of her father’s business collapse and legal disputes (the Reksten shipping interests were involved in extensive litigation after Hilmar Reksten’s death). Grace herself described spending significant time after completing her doctorate managing estates and related matters with her family’s legal estate, culminating in a settlement in 1990.
In writing about her own background, she has emphasized that she is not simply her "father’s daughter,” but has worked to build her own career in science, finance, and business leadership.
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