Gunnar Peder Kjønnøy (born 1947) is a Norwegian economist and civil servant.
Kjønnøy was born on 1 June 1947 in Averøy Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.
Kjønnøy graduated from the University of Oslo in 1972 with a cand.oecon.
He was employed by the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, the Regional Development Fund, and the Ministry of Finance.
During his time there he led the annual negotiations with the Soviet Union (and later Russia) on the resource management in the Barents Sea.