Hans Olav Østgaard (born 13 October 1944) is a Norwegian jurist.
He was hired in the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police in 1970, and was promoted to deputy under-secretary of state in 1982.
In 1993 he was appointed as director of the Norwegian Police Surveillance Agency.
[1] He was pressured to resign in 1996, as the Norwegian Parliamentary Intelligence Oversight Committee found it unacceptable that Berge Furre had been surveilled while sitting on the Lund Commission.
[2] Østgaard instead became assistant to the permanent under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Justice and the Police in 1997.