Jan Tore Odegard

Jan Tore Odegard (born 14 October 1940) is a Norwegian consultant and politician for the Conservative Party.

He was born in Oslo as a son of chief physician Jan Nicolai Thorstein Odegard and Bergljot Lysholm Bugge. He finished his secondary education at Oslo Cathedral School in 1958, and also graduated from Oslo Commerce School in 1963 and the Norwegian School of Economics in 1966. While studying here he presided over the Students' Parliament of Bergen in 1965. In 1965 he married Kristin Houge, her too a daughter of a physician. He also chaired the Conservative Party branch in Vestre Bærum from 1970 to 1971.

He was a board member of the Norwegian UNICEF committee from 1967 to 1971, and through his consulting business he has also been a board member of Bedriftsøkonomisk Institutt, Sparebanken NOR, Det Norske Veritas, Unitor, Universitetsforlaget, Bokredit, Petter Olsen AS, Fred. Olsen, Timex and Norsk Film.