The Norwegian Institute of Directors

The Norwegian Institute of Directors is a network for board members in major listed and privately held companies, state and publicly owned companies with commercial objectives as well as companies with a different ownership or organisational structure.

Our aim is to be the leading meetingsplace for development and improvement of board-work in Norwegian companies.

Our purpose is to contribute to value creation, development and renewal of business in a sustainable way.

We are working to strengthen the understanding of the value that comes from high quality board-work and enhance respect and understanding for good corporate governance ans established principles.

The Institute contributes to new knowledge, sharing best practice, networking and open dialogue, relevant diversity in top management and board of directors

Each year, we host 8-10 business seminars. In addition we offer a closed networking arena for Chairs, Board Chair Forum, and a separate meeting room for Board Secretaries, Board Secretary Forum.

Since 2009 the Norwegian Institute of Directors have surveyed board remuneration in Norwegian listed and state-owened companies. The annual survey reports are available to our members, partners and companies that have contributed their data to the survey both in Norwegian and English.

Most of our seminars and other activities takes place in Norwegian.

International network and partnerships

The Norwegian Institute of Directors is a partner of the Boards Impact Forum, the Nordic division of the World Economic Forum' Climate Governance initiative. The purpose of the forum is to engage board members in the Nordic region and internationally, accelerate climate action and innovation for sustainable business and a sustainable world. The Boards Impact forum arranges regular webinars on sustainability, innovation, and policy topics that the members of the Board's Institute can sign up for.

In addition, The Norwegian Institute of Directors is a member of ecoDa, the European Confederation of Directors’ Associations. ecoDa comprises 12 national institutes of directors, representing 60 000 board directors around Europe. We encourage all our international members to follow ecoDAs weekly newsletter “ecoDA alert”.

More information about our organisation and upcoming events is currently only available in Norwegian.

Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or suggestions on how we can improve our services towards international members.