Svein Aaser (born 7 October 1946) is a former CEO of DnB NOR, the largest financial group in Norway.

[1] He is chair of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 and the National Gallery of Norway Aaser was born in Fredrikstad, Norway and was educated at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) where he received his MBA in 1970.

By 1976, he had graduated from the Swiss IMD Business School's Program for Executive Development.

After obtaining his MBA (1970) he worked his way up in businesses starting as assistant to deputy managing director for Tank Nielsen, M. Peterson & Søn, Moss.

The year after saw him deputy CEO and chief executive officer of a subsidiary company called Imaging Nycomed Amersham.