Odd Karsten Tveit (born 17 December 1945) is a Norwegian journalist, writer and economist.

Tveit has been a foreign correspondent for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) in the Middle East[1] through three periods, from 1979 to 1983, from 1990 to 1994, and from 2003 to 2007.

[3] Tveit's first assignment as a foreign correspondent was in Cairo in 1978, a short-term replacement for Kjell Gjøstein Resi.

[3] Tveit was again Middle East correspondent for NRK from 2003 to 2007, when the office was based in Amman.

[5] In 2007 Sidsel Wold was assigned as NRK's new correspondent after Tveit had finished his period in Amman.