Odd Berg

Odd Berg (6 December 1894 – 1973) was a Norwegian ship-owner. He operated his own company, Odd Bergs Tankrederi, from 1929, and during the Second World War he was an assisting director of Nortraship. He was active in the Conservative Party and the Norwegian Shipowners' Association, and was the first chairman of Libertas.

Early life and career He was born in Kristiania as a son of civil servant Realf Martinius Berg (1863–1945) and Alvilde Christiane Gabrielsen (1865–1949). In 1919 he married merchant's daughter Louise Marie Heiberg Albretsen.

He finished Kristiania Commerce School in 1912. He started his career in the offices of Fred. Olsen, where he worked until 1914. He then worked as a shipbroker's assistant in Liverpool and Leith 1915, then back in Norway in Jac. Lindvig from 1916. He became a co-owner in the company S. Ugelstad & Co. in 1917. He chaired the board of Norges Handels- og Sjøfartstidende from 1963 to 1967, chaired the supervisory council of Globus and was a supervisory council member of Norske Liv from 1945 to 1960, Morgenbladet from 1945 to 1961 and council member of Norges Eksportråd 1945 to 1948.