Dan Børge Akerø

Dan Børge Akerø (born 23 January 1951) is a Norwegian television personality.

He took his education at the University of Oslo, graduating with a cand.mag. degree. From 1975 to 1980 he worked as a research assistant and research fellow at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo. He specialized in Latin American topics. In his younger days he also played association football for Skeid and Viking FK.

Before finishing his master's degree, He has later established a lucrative investment company, Danpower International AS. However, on one occasion he personally lost NOK 1,500,000 through a failed investment in the hotel business.

Akerø returned to the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in 1999, and soon hosted the show Den store klassefesten. Between 2000 and 2005, the show had between 986,000 and 1,411,000 viewers; in comparison the whole country had about 4,500,000 inhabitants at the time. For this show, Akerø won two Gullruten awards, in 2001 and 2003. He is also known for hosting the musical competition show Kjempesjansen, He also hosted the annual show Idrettsgallaen and the 2007 and 2008 editions of the charitable fundraiser show TV-aksjonen.