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Bernt Reitan is a long serving director, consultant and executive with aluminium company [[Alcoa]]. he is also a director of [[Royal Caribbean Cruises]] Ltd, [[Yara International ASA]], [[International Primary Aluminum Institute]] and [[Renewable Energy Corporation ASA]] and is a former board member of the [[European Aluminium Association]]<ref>Business Week. Alcoa Profile [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=731532&ticker=AA:US&previousCapId=6245251&previousTitle=RENEWABLE%20ENERGY%20CORP%20ASA Bernt Reitan biography] Accessed 08/02/2012</ref>

==Biography==

According to Business week's biography:

:Mr. Bernt Reitan serves as Consultant of [[Alcoa]], Inc. Mr. Reitan served as an Executive Vice President of Alcoa Inc. from November 2004 to August 1, 2010 and its Group President, Global Primary Products from October, 20 2004 to August 1, 2010. Mr. Reitan served as the Group President of Global Primary Products at Closure Systems International Inc. (also called as Alcoa Closure Systems International Inc.) since 2003 and as its Executive Vice President since October 2004. He served as the President of [[Alcoa]] World Alumina and Chemicals at Closure Systems International since January 2001 and served as its Vice President since July 2001. In January 2003, he was appointed as President, Alcoa Primary Metals and by year-end 2003 he was named Group President for Alcoa Primary Products. He was elected Vice President of Primary Metals at Alcoa in 2003. He served as a Vice President of Alcoa Inc. until November 2004. He joined Alcoa in 2000 as General Manager of Alcoa World Alumina Chemicals in Europe. Mr. Reitan held a series of positions with [[Elkem]] in Norway over a 20-year period, plant manager of R?nd magnetite mine from 1980 to 1983, general manager of Elkem Chemicals Ltd. in England from 1983 to 1984, plant manager of Fiskaa silicon plant from 1985 to 1987, and business unit manager of ferro alloys division since 1987. Mr. Reitan served as the Senior Vice President of Materials and Technology and Managing Director of [[Elkem]] Aluminium ANS from 1988 to June 2000. From 1972 to 1979, he held civil engineering positions in Norway (Stavanger and Lillehammer). He served as the Chairman of [[Norzink]] A/S from 1995 to 2000. He served as Chairman of Alcoa of Australia Ltd. He has been a Director of [[Renewable Energy Corporation ASA]] since May 2010. Mr. Reitan has been an Independent Director of [[Royal Caribbean Cruises]] Ltd. since September 2004 and [[Yara International ASA]] since May 2009. He serves as a Director of [[International Primary Aluminum Institute]]. He is co-chair of the board of Trustees in ASF (American Scandinavian Foundation), a non-profit organization in New York. He was Chairman of the board of the Norwegian Metallurgical Industry's Association from 1990 to 1992. He served as a Director of various associations including the [[European Aluminium Association]], the Norwegian Employers Federation, the Norwegian Process and Manufacturing Association. His corporate board memberships include [[Arkwright Insurance]] Inc.'s international advisory board; Hunsfos A/S and Raufoss A/S. Mr. Reitan holds a M.Sc. in civil engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.<ref>Business Week. Alcoa Profile [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=731532&ticker=AA:US&previousCapId=6245251&previousTitle=RENEWABLE%20ENERGY%20CORP%20ASA Bernt Reitan biography] Accessed 08/02/2012</ref>

==Directorships==

===As of Feb 2012===

*2004-Present Independent Director, Chairman of Compensation Committee and Member of Audit Committee [[Royal Caribbean Cruises]] Ltd.
*2009-Present Director and Member of Audit Committee [[Yara International ASA]]
*2010-Present Director and Member of Corporate Governance Committee [[Renewable Energy Corporation ASA]]<ref>Business Week. Alcoa Profile [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=731532&ticker=AA:US&previousCapId=6245251&previousTitle=RENEWABLE%20ENERGY%20CORP%20ASA Bernt Reitan biography] Accessed 08/02/2012</ref>

==Views==

==Affiliations==

*[[Royal Caribbean Cruises]] Ltd.
*[[Elkem]] AS
*[[Closure Systems International]], Inc.
*[[Norwegian University of Science and Technology]]
*[[Renewable Energy Corporation ASA]]
*[[Yara International ASA]]
*[[European Aluminium Association]]
*[[Alcoa]]<ref>Business Week. Alcoa Profile [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=731532&ticker=AA:US&previousCapId=6245251&previousTitle=RENEWABLE%20ENERGY%20CORP%20ASA Bernt Reitan biography] Accessed 08/02/2012</ref>

==Resources==

Transcription and documents from a presentation by Bernt Reitan to Alcoa First Quarter Analyst Workshop, April 22, 2004.<ref>Edgar-Online transcriptions [http://google.brand.edgar-online.com/displayfilinginfo.aspx?filingid=2918481&tabindex=2&type=html Alcoa First Quarter Analyst Workshop, April 22, 2004] Accessed 08/02/1012</ref>

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-Norwegian national Bernt Reitan is a long serving director, consultant and executive with aluminium company [[Alcoa]], serving as Executive Vice President from 2004 to 2010. He was a director of alloy and silica company [[Elkem]] from 1988 to 2000, who subsequently sold their aluminium subsidiary to [[Alcoa]] in 2009.<ref>Alcoa website. News [http://www.alcoa.com/global/en/news/news_detail.asp?pageID=20090331005835en&newsYear=2009 Alcoa Completes Exchange with ORKLA ASA For 2 Norwegian Smelters and Anode Plant]. March 31, 2009. Accessed 24/02/2012</ref> He is also a director of [[Royal Caribbean Cruises]] Ltd, [[Yara International ASA]], [[International Primary Aluminium Institute]] and [[Renewable Energy Corporation ASA]] and is a former board member of the [[European Aluminium Association]]<ref>Business Week. Alcoa Profile [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=731532&ticker=AA:US&previousCapId=6245251&previousTitle=RENEWABLE%20ENERGY%20CORP%20ASA Bernt Reitan biography] Accessed 08/02/2012</ref>
+Norwegian national '''Bernt Reitan''' is a long serving director, consultant and executive with aluminium company [[Alcoa]], serving as Executive Vice President from 2004 to 2010. He was a director of alloy and silica company [[Elkem]] from 1988 to 2000, who subsequently sold their aluminium subsidiary to [[Alcoa]] in 2009.<ref>Alcoa website. News [http://www.alcoa.com/global/en/news/news_detail.asp?pageID=20090331005835en&newsYear=2009 Alcoa Completes Exchange with ORKLA ASA For 2 Norwegian Smelters and Anode Plant]. March 31, 2009. Accessed 24/02/2012</ref> He is also a director of [[Royal Caribbean Cruises]] Ltd, [[Yara International ASA]], [[International Primary Aluminium Institute]] and [[Renewable Energy Corporation ASA]] and is a former board member of the [[European Aluminium Association]]<ref>Business Week. Alcoa Profile [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=731532&ticker=AA:US&previousCapId=6245251&previousTitle=RENEWABLE%20ENERGY%20CORP%20ASA Bernt Reitan biography] Accessed 08/02/2012</ref>
 ==Directorships and affiliations as of feb 2012==

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-Norwegian national Bernt Reitan is a long serving director, consultant and executive with aluminium company [[Alcoa]], serving as Executive Vice President from 2004 to 2010. He was a director of alloy and silica company [[Elkem]] from 1988 to 2000, who subsequently sold their aluminium subsidiary to [[Alcoa]] in 2009.<ref>Alcoa website. News [http://www.alcoa.com/global/en/news/news_detail.asp?pageID=20090331005835en&newsYear=2009 Alcoa Completes Exchange with ORKLA ASA For 2 Norwegian Smelters and Anode Plant]. March 31, 2009. Accessed 24/02/2012</ref> He is also a director of [[Royal Caribbean Cruises]] Ltd, [[Yara International ASA]], [[International Primary Aluminum Institute]] and [[Renewable Energy Corporation ASA]] and is a former board member of the [[European Aluminium Association]]<ref>Business Week. Alcoa Profile [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=731532&ticker=AA:US&previousCapId=6245251&previousTitle=RENEWABLE%20ENERGY%20CORP%20ASA Bernt Reitan biography] Accessed 08/02/2012</ref>
+Norwegian national Bernt Reitan is a long serving director, consultant and executive with aluminium company [[Alcoa]], serving as Executive Vice President from 2004 to 2010. He was a director of alloy and silica company [[Elkem]] from 1988 to 2000, who subsequently sold their aluminium subsidiary to [[Alcoa]] in 2009.<ref>Alcoa website. News [http://www.alcoa.com/global/en/news/news_detail.asp?pageID=20090331005835en&newsYear=2009 Alcoa Completes Exchange with ORKLA ASA For 2 Norwegian Smelters and Anode Plant]. March 31, 2009. Accessed 24/02/2012</ref> He is also a director of [[Royal Caribbean Cruises]] Ltd, [[Yara International ASA]], [[International Primary Aluminium Institute]] and [[Renewable Energy Corporation ASA]] and is a former board member of the [[European Aluminium Association]]<ref>Business Week. Alcoa Profile [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=731532&ticker=AA:US&previousCapId=6245251&previousTitle=RENEWABLE%20ENERGY%20CORP%20ASA Bernt Reitan biography] Accessed 08/02/2012</ref>
 ==Directorships and affiliations as of feb 2012==
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 *Independent Director [[Royal Caribbean Cruises]] Ltd. since September 2004
 *Independent Director [[Yara International ASA]] since May 2009
-*Director [[International Primary Aluminum Institute]]
+*Director [[International Primary Aluminium Institute]]
 *[[Closure Systems International]], Inc.
 *Director [[Hunsfos]] A/S

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 {{Template:Mining and Metals badge}}
-Norwegian national Bernt Reitan is a long serving director, consultant and executive with aluminium company [[Alcoa]], serving as Executive Vice President from 2004 to 2010. He was a director of alloy and silica company [[Elkem]] from 1988 to 2000, who subsequently sold their aluminium subsidiary to [[Alcoa]] in 2009<ref>Alcoa website. News [http://www.alcoa.com/global/en/news/news_detail.asp?pageID=20090331005835en&newsYear=2009 Alcoa Completes Exchange with ORKLA ASA For 2 Norwegian Smelters and Anode Plant]. March 31, 2009. Accessed 24/02/2012</ref>. He is also a director of [[Royal Caribbean Cruises]] Ltd, [[Yara International ASA]], [[International Primary Aluminum Institute]] and [[Renewable Energy Corporation ASA]] and is a former board member of the [[European Aluminium Association]]<ref>Business Week. Alcoa Profile [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=731532&ticker=AA:US&previousCapId=6245251&previousTitle=RENEWABLE%20ENERGY%20CORP%20ASA Bernt Reitan biography] Accessed 08/02/2012</ref>
+Norwegian national Bernt Reitan is a long serving director, consultant and executive with aluminium company [[Alcoa]], serving as Executive Vice President from 2004 to 2010. He was a director of alloy and silica company [[Elkem]] from 1988 to 2000, who subsequently sold their aluminium subsidiary to [[Alcoa]] in 2009.<ref>Alcoa website. News [http://www.alcoa.com/global/en/news/news_detail.asp?pageID=20090331005835en&newsYear=2009 Alcoa Completes Exchange with ORKLA ASA For 2 Norwegian Smelters and Anode Plant]. March 31, 2009. Accessed 24/02/2012</ref> He is also a director of [[Royal Caribbean Cruises]] Ltd, [[Yara International ASA]], [[International Primary Aluminum Institute]] and [[Renewable Energy Corporation ASA]] and is a former board member of the [[European Aluminium Association]]<ref>Business Week. Alcoa Profile [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=731532&ticker=AA:US&previousCapId=6245251&previousTitle=RENEWABLE%20ENERGY%20CORP%20ASA Bernt Reitan biography] Accessed 08/02/2012</ref>
 ==Directorships and affiliations as of feb 2012==
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 ==Iceland==
 [[Image:2010 bernt reitan small.jpg|thumb|right|Bernt Reitan. Photo taken at the groundbreaking event of Alcoa Fjardaál in 2004. Bernt Reitan (center) with Valgerdur Sverrisdóttir (left), who was then Minister of Industry, and Gudmundur Bjarnason, who was Mayor of Fjardabyggd. From Alcoa in Iceland website<ref>Alcoa website [http://www.alcoa.com/iceland/en/news/whats_new/2010/2010_02_thuestad.asp John Thuestad Elected Alcoa Executive Vice President and Group President Global Primary Products; Bernt Reitan to Retire] February 24, 2010. Accessed 21/02/2012</ref>]]
-Bernt Reitan was Senior Vice President of Materials and Technology and Managing Director of Elkem Aluminium between 1988 and 2000 while Iceland's [[Elkem]] alloys plant was being expanded)<ref>Elkem Iceland website [http://jarnblendi.is/english/ English version] Accessed 21/02/2012</ref>. In 2009, while Reitan was Executive Vice President of Alcoa Elkem's subsidiary [[Elkem Aluminium]] was sold to [[Alcoa]]. Bernt Reitan broke the ground at Alcoa's massive [[Alcoa Fjardaál]] smelter, their poster greenfield project, in the tiny fishing village of Reydarfjörður in 2004. He was heavily involved in the project which was completed in 2006. The project caused some of the biggest protests Iceland had ever seen over the [[Kárahnjúkar Dam]], which flooded more than 60km of rare wilderness highlands to power it.<ref>Susan De Muth
+Bernt Reitan was Senior Vice President of Materials and Technology and Managing Director of Elkem Aluminium between 1988 and 2000 while Iceland's [[Elkem]] alloys plant was being expanded)<ref>Elkem Iceland website [http://jarnblendi.is/english/ English version] Accessed 21/02/2012</ref>. In 2009, while Reitan was Executive Vice President of Alcoa Elkem's subsidiary [[Elkem Aluminium]] was sold to [[Alcoa]].<ref>Alcoa website. News [http://www.alcoa.com/global/en/news/news_detail.asp?pageID=20090331005835en&newsYear=2009 Alcoa Completes Exchange with ORKLA ASA For 2 Norwegian Smelters and Anode Plant]. March 31, 2009. Accessed 24/02/2012</ref> Bernt Reitan broke the ground at Alcoa's massive [[Alcoa Fjardaál]] smelter, their poster greenfield project, in the tiny fishing village of Reydarfjörður in 2004. He was heavily involved in the project which was completed in 2006. The project caused some of the biggest protests Iceland had ever seen over the [[Kárahnjúkar Dam]], which flooded more than 60km of rare wilderness highlands to power it.<ref>Susan De Muth
 The Guardian [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2003/nov/29/weekendmagazine.conservationandendangeredspecies Power Driven] Saturday 29 November 2003. Accessed 21/02/2012</ref>

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-Norwegian national Bernt Reitan is a long serving director, consultant and executive with aluminium company [[Alcoa]], serving as Executive Vice President from 2004 to 2010. He was a director of aluminium company [[Elkem]] from 1988 to 2000. He is also a director of [[Royal Caribbean Cruises]] Ltd, [[Yara International ASA]], [[International Primary Aluminum Institute]] and [[Renewable Energy Corporation ASA]] and is a former board member of the [[European Aluminium Association]]<ref>Business Week. Alcoa Profile [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=731532&ticker=AA:US&previousCapId=6245251&previousTitle=RENEWABLE%20ENERGY%20CORP%20ASA Bernt Reitan biography] Accessed 08/02/2012</ref>
+Norwegian national Bernt Reitan is a long serving director, consultant and executive with aluminium company [[Alcoa]], serving as Executive Vice President from 2004 to 2010. He was a director of alloy and silica company [[Elkem]] from 1988 to 2000, who subsequently sold their aluminium subsidiary to [[Alcoa]] in 2009<ref>Alcoa website. News [http://www.alcoa.com/global/en/news/news_detail.asp?pageID=20090331005835en&newsYear=2009 Alcoa Completes Exchange with ORKLA ASA For 2 Norwegian Smelters and Anode Plant]. March 31, 2009. Accessed 24/02/2012</ref>. He is also a director of [[Royal Caribbean Cruises]] Ltd, [[Yara International ASA]], [[International Primary Aluminum Institute]] and [[Renewable Energy Corporation ASA]] and is a former board member of the [[European Aluminium Association]]<ref>Business Week. Alcoa Profile [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=731532&ticker=AA:US&previousCapId=6245251&previousTitle=RENEWABLE%20ENERGY%20CORP%20ASA Bernt Reitan biography] Accessed 08/02/2012</ref>
 ==Directorships and affiliations as of feb 2012==
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 ==Iceland==
 [[Image:2010 bernt reitan small.jpg|thumb|right|Bernt Reitan. Photo taken at the groundbreaking event of Alcoa Fjardaál in 2004. Bernt Reitan (center) with Valgerdur Sverrisdóttir (left), who was then Minister of Industry, and Gudmundur Bjarnason, who was Mayor of Fjardabyggd. From Alcoa in Iceland website<ref>Alcoa website [http://www.alcoa.com/iceland/en/news/whats_new/2010/2010_02_thuestad.asp John Thuestad Elected Alcoa Executive Vice President and Group President Global Primary Products; Bernt Reitan to Retire] February 24, 2010. Accessed 21/02/2012</ref>]]
-Bernt Reitan has been involved in the development of Iceland's [[Elkem]] plant (serving as Senior Vice President of Materials and Technology and Managing Director of Elkem Aluminium between 1988 and 2000 while the plant was being expanded)<ref>Elkem Iceland website [http://jarnblendi.is/english/ English version] Accessed 21/02/2012</ref>, and subsequently in the [[Alcoa Fjardaál]] smelter, [[Alcoa]]'s poster-child greenfield project, completed in 2006. Bernt Reitan broke the ground at the massive Fjardaál smelter in the tiny fishing village of Reydarfjörður in 2004. The project caused some of the biggest protests Iceland had ever seen over the [[Kárahnjúkar Dam]], which flooded more than 60km of rare wilderness highlands to power it.<ref>Susan De Muth
+Bernt Reitan was Senior Vice President of Materials and Technology and Managing Director of Elkem Aluminium between 1988 and 2000 while Iceland's [[Elkem]] alloys plant was being expanded)<ref>Elkem Iceland website [http://jarnblendi.is/english/ English version] Accessed 21/02/2012</ref>. In 2009, while Reitan was Executive Vice President of Alcoa Elkem's subsidiary [[Elkem Aluminium]] was sold to [[Alcoa]]. Bernt Reitan broke the ground at Alcoa's massive [[Alcoa Fjardaál]] smelter, their poster greenfield project, in the tiny fishing village of Reydarfjörður in 2004. He was heavily involved in the project which was completed in 2006. The project caused some of the biggest protests Iceland had ever seen over the [[Kárahnjúkar Dam]], which flooded more than 60km of rare wilderness highlands to power it.<ref>Susan De Muth
 The Guardian [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2003/nov/29/weekendmagazine.conservationandendangeredspecies Power Driven] Saturday 29 November 2003. Accessed 21/02/2012</ref>

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 ==Iceland==
-[[Image:2010 bernt reitan small.jpg|thumb|right|Bernt Reitan. Photo taken at the groundbreaking event of Alcoa Fjardaál in 2004. Bernt Reitan (center) with Valgerdur Sverrisdóttir (left), who was then Minister of Industry, and Gudmundur Bjarnason, who was Mayor of Fjardabyggd. From Alcoa in Iceland website]]<ref>Alcoa website [http://www.alcoa.com/iceland/en/news/whats_new/2010/2010_02_thuestad.asp John Thuestad Elected Alcoa Executive Vice President and Group President Global Primary Products; Bernt Reitan to Retire] February 24, 2010. Accessed 21/02/2012</ref>
+[[Image:2010 bernt reitan small.jpg|thumb|right|Bernt Reitan. Photo taken at the groundbreaking event of Alcoa Fjardaál in 2004. Bernt Reitan (center) with Valgerdur Sverrisdóttir (left), who was then Minister of Industry, and Gudmundur Bjarnason, who was Mayor of Fjardabyggd. From Alcoa in Iceland website<ref>Alcoa website [http://www.alcoa.com/iceland/en/news/whats_new/2010/2010_02_thuestad.asp John Thuestad Elected Alcoa Executive Vice President and Group President Global Primary Products; Bernt Reitan to Retire] February 24, 2010. Accessed 21/02/2012</ref>]]
 Bernt Reitan has been involved in the development of Iceland's [[Elkem]] plant (serving as Senior Vice President of Materials and Technology and Managing Director of Elkem Aluminium between 1988 and 2000 while the plant was being expanded)<ref>Elkem Iceland website [http://jarnblendi.is/english/ English version] Accessed 21/02/2012</ref>, and subsequently in the [[Alcoa Fjardaál]] smelter, [[Alcoa]]'s poster-child greenfield project, completed in 2006. Bernt Reitan broke the ground at the massive Fjardaál smelter in the tiny fishing village of Reydarfjörður in 2004. The project caused some of the biggest protests Iceland had ever seen over the [[Kárahnjúkar Dam]], which flooded more than 60km of rare wilderness highlands to power it.<ref>Susan De Muth
 The Guardian [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2003/nov/29/weekendmagazine.conservationandendangeredspecies Power Driven] Saturday 29 November 2003. Accessed 21/02/2012</ref>

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-Bernt Reitan is a long serving director, consultant and executive with aluminium company [[Alcoa]]. he is also a director of [[Royal Caribbean Cruises]] Ltd, [[Yara International ASA]], [[International Primary Aluminum Institute]] and [[Renewable Energy Corporation ASA]] and is a former board member of the [[European Aluminium Association]]<ref>Business Week. Alcoa Profile [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=731532&ticker=AA:US&previousCapId=6245251&previousTitle=RENEWABLE%20ENERGY%20CORP%20ASA Bernt Reitan biography] Accessed 08/02/2012</ref>
+Norwegian national Bernt Reitan is a long serving director, consultant and executive with aluminium company [[Alcoa]], serving as Executive Vice President from 2004 to 2010. He was a director of aluminium company [[Elkem]] from 1988 to 2000. He is also a director of [[Royal Caribbean Cruises]] Ltd, [[Yara International ASA]], [[International Primary Aluminum Institute]] and [[Renewable Energy Corporation ASA]] and is a former board member of the [[European Aluminium Association]]<ref>Business Week. Alcoa Profile [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=731532&ticker=AA:US&previousCapId=6245251&previousTitle=RENEWABLE%20ENERGY%20CORP%20ASA Bernt Reitan biography] Accessed 08/02/2012</ref>
-==Biography==
+==Directorships and affiliations as of feb 2012==
-According to Business week's biography:
+*Director [[Elkem]] 1988-2000
+*Executive Vice President [[Alcoa]] 2004-2010
-:Mr. Bernt Reitan serves as Consultant of [[Alcoa]], Inc. Mr. Reitan served as an Executive Vice President of Alcoa Inc. from November 2004 to August 1, 2010 and its Group President, Global Primary Products from October, 20 2004 to August 1, 2010. Mr. Reitan served as the Group President of Global Primary Products at Closure Systems International Inc. (also called as Alcoa Closure Systems International Inc.) since 2003 and as its Executive Vice President since October 2004. He served as the President of [[Alcoa]] World Alumina and Chemicals at Closure Systems International since January 2001 and served as its Vice President since July 2001. In January 2003, he was appointed as President, Alcoa Primary Metals and by year-end 2003 he was named Group President for Alcoa Primary Products. He was elected Vice President of Primary Metals at Alcoa in 2003. He served as a Vice President of Alcoa Inc. until November 2004. He joined Alcoa in 2000 as General Manager of Alcoa World Alumina Chemicals in Europe. Mr. Reitan held a series of positions with [[Elkem]] in Norway over a 20-year period, plant manager of R?nd magnetite mine from 1980 to 1983, general manager of Elkem Chemicals Ltd. in England from 1983 to 1984, plant manager of Fiskaa silicon plant from 1985 to 1987, and business unit manager of ferro alloys division since 1987. Mr. Reitan served as the Senior Vice President of Materials and Technology and Managing Director of [[Elkem]] Aluminium ANS from 1988 to June 2000. From 1972 to 1979, he held civil engineering positions in Norway (Stavanger and Lillehammer). He served as the Chairman of [[Norzink]] A/S from 1995 to 2000. He served as Chairman of Alcoa of Australia Ltd. He has been a Director of [[Renewable Energy Corporation ASA]] since May 2010. Mr. Reitan has been an Independent Director of [[Royal Caribbean Cruises]] Ltd. since September 2004 and [[Yara International ASA]] since May 2009. He serves as a Director of [[International Primary Aluminum Institute]]. He is co-chair of the board of Trustees in ASF (American Scandinavian Foundation), a non-profit organization in New York. He was Chairman of the board of the Norwegian Metallurgical Industry's Association from 1990 to 1992. He served as a Director of various associations including the [[European Aluminium Association]], the Norwegian Employers Federation, the Norwegian Process and Manufacturing Association. His corporate board memberships include [[Arkwright Insurance]] Inc.'s international advisory board; Hunsfos A/S and Raufoss A/S. Mr. Reitan holds a M.Sc. in civil engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.<ref>Business Week. Alcoa Profile [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=731532&ticker=AA:US&previousCapId=6245251&previousTitle=RENEWABLE%20ENERGY%20CORP%20ASA Bernt Reitan biography] Accessed 08/02/2012</ref>
+*Chairman [[Norzink]] 1995-2000
+*Director [[Renewable Energy Corporation ASA]] since May 2010
-==Directorships==
+*Advisory director [[Arkwright Insurance]]
+*Independent Director [[Royal Caribbean Cruises]] Ltd. since September 2004
-===As of Feb 2012===
+*Independent Director [[Yara International ASA]] since May 2009
+*Director [[International Primary Aluminum Institute]]
-*2004-Present Independent Director, Chairman of Compensation Committee and Member of Audit Committee [[Royal Caribbean Cruises]] Ltd.
+*[[Closure Systems International]], Inc.
-*2009-Present Director and Member of Audit Committee [[Yara International ASA]]
+*Director [[Hunsfos]] A/S
-*2010-Present Director and Member of Corporate Governance Committee [[Renewable Energy Corporation ASA]]<ref>Business Week. Alcoa Profile [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=731532&ticker=AA:US&previousCapId=6245251&previousTitle=RENEWABLE%20ENERGY%20CORP%20ASA Bernt Reitan biography] Accessed 08/02/2012</ref>
+*Director [[Raufoss]] A/S
+*Co-chair of the board of Trustees in ASF ([[American Scandinavian Foundation]],
-==Views==
+*Chairman of the board the [[Norwegian Metallurgical Industry's Association]] 1990-1992
+*Former Director [[European Aluminium Association]]
-==Affiliations==
+*Former Director [[Norwegian Employers Federation]]
-*[[Royal Caribbean Cruises]] Ltd.
+==Iceland==
-*[[Elkem]] AS
+[[Image:2010 bernt reitan small.jpg|thumb|right|Bernt Reitan. Photo taken at the groundbreaking event of Alcoa Fjardaál in 2004. Bernt Reitan (center) with Valgerdur Sverrisdóttir (left), who was then Minister of Industry, and Gudmundur Bjarnason, who was Mayor of Fjardabyggd. From Alcoa in Iceland website]]<ref>Alcoa website [http://www.alcoa.com/iceland/en/news/whats_new/2010/2010_02_thuestad.asp John Thuestad Elected Alcoa Executive Vice President and Group President Global Primary Products; Bernt Reitan to Retire] February 24, 2010. Accessed 21/02/2012</ref>
-*[[Closure Systems International]], Inc.
+Bernt Reitan has been involved in the development of Iceland's [[Elkem]] plant (serving as Senior Vice President of Materials and Technology and Managing Director of Elkem Aluminium between 1988 and 2000 while the plant was being expanded)<ref>Elkem Iceland website [http://jarnblendi.is/english/ English version] Accessed 21/02/2012</ref>, and subsequently in the [[Alcoa Fjardaál]] smelter, [[Alcoa]]'s poster-child greenfield project, completed in 2006. Bernt Reitan broke the ground at the massive Fjardaál smelter in the tiny fishing village of Reydarfjörður in 2004. The project caused some of the biggest protests Iceland had ever seen over the [[Kárahnjúkar Dam]], which flooded more than 60km of rare wilderness highlands to power it.<ref>Susan De Muth
-*[[Norwegian University of Science and Technology]]
+The Guardian [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2003/nov/29/weekendmagazine.conservationandendangeredspecies Power Driven] Saturday 29 November 2003. Accessed 21/02/2012</ref>
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