Odd Arild Kvaløy

Odd Arild Kvaløy (born 28 December 1948 ) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. He is best known as the county mayor of Rogaland from 1991 to 1999, being Rogaland's first county mayor to win re-election.

He was born in Stavanger, and is an agrotechnician by education. He worked in the Felleskjøpet Rogaland Agder, an agricultural cooperative retailer, from 1970 to 1981. He then worked in the Centre Party organization from 1981 to 1987, and in the bank SpareBank 1 SR-Bank from 1988. He had experience in local politics, where he was a member of Stavanger city council from 1980 to 1987, the last four years in the executive committee. He was also a city councilman from 1991 to 1995, and a member of Rogaland county council from 1983 to present.

For some years Kvaløy represented Norway in the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. In 2005 he was rapporteur for a monitoring report on the situation of Local and Regional Democracy in the Netherlands, with Kathryn Smith, and in 2011 was rapporteur for a report on local and regional democracy in Serbia with Christopher Newbury.