Nikolai Bent Paus (born 21 October 1944) is a Norwegian businessman and real estate investor.
He was CEO of the construction company Eeg-Henriksen (now the Norwegian part of NCC AB), Norway's third largest construction company, from 1984 to 1997.
[3] Most recently, Nikolai Paus was exposed as an intermediary of and beneficiary of the Playa Sol S.A. offshore entity incorporated in 1989 exposed in the Panama Papers[4][5] He graduated with a Master of Science degree in engineering from the Purdue University College of Engineering in 1968, and worked in the United States and Australia before joining Eeg-Henriksen in Norway in 1973.
Eeg-Henriksen had major contracts in connection with the construction of Oslo Airport, Gardermoen in the 1990s.
[6] Nikolai Paus has been a board member of the Norwegian Export Council and of Eckbos Legat.