Torstein Dale Sjøtveit

Besides learning new skills, the program has been successful in providing key motivation to the community, with a strong focus on the importance of education. Its support is reflected by the enrollment of 280 students at the two new primary schools, SK Metalun and SK Tegulang in 2014.

Torstein has also been a Director on the Board of the International Hydropower Association since 2011.

Sarawak Energy became a sustainability partner with the International Hydropower Association in 2011. Sarawak Energy is being guided by the IHA Sustainability Protocol in implementing the hydropower development projects. Sarawak Energy also hosted the World Congress for Advancing Sustainable Hydropower in Kuching in May 2013.

He served AS the chief executive officer (CEO) of East Malaysia-based Sarawak Energy (SEB), a position he has held from November 2009 inntil November 2016. He led the state-owned, fully integrated utility company, responsible for development, generation, transmission, distribution and retail of electricity, to serve more than 500,000 customers throughout the State of Sarawak.

In August 2008 Torstein left Norsk Hydro to take up the position of President and CEO of Europe's biggest shipbuilding group, Aker Yards ASA, with 15,000 employees and listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. During his service at Aker Yards ASA, the company was fully acquired by the Korean Shipbuilding group STX. He left the company after it was delisted and fully integrated into the STX Groups of companies.

In 2005 he was appointed Head of Aluminium Metal at Norsk Hydro, where he led 5,000 employees in upstream aluminium operations – bauxite, alumina, aluminium smelters and cast houses, with 30 plants across 13 countries. From 2006 to 2008 he was also a member of the Corporate Management Board of Norsk Hydro as Executive Vice President, heading the upstream aluminium segment.

Over the same period, the rate of power theft in Sarawak has been reduced by half, and Sarawak Energy's distribution network has the best ever performance in the System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI), moving from an average duration of 419 minutes per year, per customer in 2002, to 168 minutes per year, per customer in 2013.

After working in the contracting industry from late 1979, Torstein entered the energy sector in May 1981, joining Norwegian industrial conglomerate Norsk Hydro, where he served for 27 years. During his tenure at Norsk Hydro, he was promoted to senior positions across the company's operations in Oil and Gas and later in the aluminium business areas. The positions included the Vice President of the Angola Business Unit, living in West Africa, from 1995-2001, Senior Vice President for Exploration and Development Norway and held SVP positions in other businesses as well as in Norsk Hydro's aluminium area.

Torstein attended the Finance and Administration College at Rjukan from 1972-73. He then went for training at the Technical College for Civil Engineering at Porsgrunn from 1976–78 and the Technical College in Civil Engineering at Stavanger from 1978-79.

Torstein Dale Sjøtveit (born 10 May 1955) is a Norwegian business executive. Torstein is currently executive chairman of Freyr AS, a Norwegian company aiming at establishing a 32 GWh Giga factory for lithium battery cells in Mo I Rana Norway.