Dag Klaveness

Dag Klaveness (22 September 1913 – 26 February 1986) was a Norwegian ship-owner.

Personal life He was born in Bærum as a son of ship-owner Anton Fredrik Klaveness (1874–1958). He was a brother of ship-owner Anton Fredrik Klaveness (1903–1981), brother-in-law of Johan H. Andresen, nephew of Johan Karsten Rasmussen, and grandnephew of ship-owner and politician Henrik Klaveness.

In 1939, he married Wanda Young Fearnley, a daughter of landowner Nils Olav Young Fearnley and Ingeborg Heiberg.

Career Klaveness finished his secondary education in 1931 and took one year of officer's training before moving to Switzerland. After taking commerce school in Neuchâtel, he graduated from the University of Neuchâtel in 1935. From 1939, he spent his career as chief executive officer of the major shipping corporation A. F. Klaveness & Co. In the Norwegian Shipowners' Association, he became a national board member in 1962, central board member in 1964, vice president in 1968 and president in 1972, He became a board member of the private club Shippingklubben in 1953 and chaired it from 1962 to 1964. He was also a council member of the University of Oslo's Norwegian Institute in Rome.