Mr. Håkon Bruaset Kjøl (Haakon Bruaset Kjoel) is a senior corporate and public affairs professional with extensive experience from the telecom and digital industry in Europe and Asia.
Håkon is currently the Senior Vice President and Head of External Relations for Asia. Prior to this he served as the Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer of Dtac, Telenor Group’s mobile network operator in Thailand. Håkon joined Telenor Group in 1995 and started his career in the mobile operations in Norway. Since then he has gained extensive international experience through his involvement in Telenor’s international activities in Europe and for the last 20 years in Asia. During this period he has held senior global and regional leadership roles in the areas of regulatory and public affairs, government and public relations, corporate communications, sustainability and strategy development.
Håkon has more than a decade of Board experience and he currently serves on the Board of Directors of several Telenor Group companies in Singapore and Thailand, Telenor Myanmar Ltd., Telenor Pakistan Ltd., Grameenphone Ltd. in Bangladesh and Digi.com Berhard in Malaysia where he is the Chair of the Board. Håkon is also a non-executive Director of the internationally renowned architect and design company Snøhetta headquartered in Oslo, Norway.
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.
