Gunnar Vatten (9 August 1927 – 20 July 2011) was a Norwegian engineer and civil servant.
He was employed in the Norwegian Water Resources and Electricity Agency from 1953 to 1955, and then worked as a consultant in Nordland County Municipality before working for the Western Electric Company in Oklahoma.
He was then a deputy under-secretary of state in the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy from 1978 to 1985.
[2] When Statkraft was split from the Water Resources and Electricity Agency in 1986,[3] Vatten became the chief executive officer.
[2] He left on 1 March 1992 and was replaced by Lars Uno Thulin.