Jon Ola Hauger Norbom (15 December 1923 – 12 April 2020) was a Norwegian economist and politician.

During World War II, in 1942, Norbom was imprisoned for a brief time at Grini concentration camp.

Then, in November 1943, he was among the students who were arrested by the German occupying forces in Norway as part of a general imprisonment of all male, non-NS students at the University of Oslo.

from the University of Oslo in 1949, and studied international economics and European integration at the College of Europe in Bruges from 1952 to 1953.

He was director in the International Trade Centre Unctad/Gatt from 1973 to 1984, the Permanent Secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Social Affairs from 1984 to 1993, and member of the United Nations Social Policy Committee from 1987 to 1990.