Telenor ASA - Board/Management Information 2015

Morten Sørby to head Telenor Group in Asia

(Oslo, Norway - 18 May 2015) Telenor Group today

announced that Mr. Morten Sørby has been appointed

Head of Region Asia in Telenor Group, effective 1

June 2015. Mr. Sigve Brekke was recently announced as

the upcoming President and CEO of Telenor Group and

will now start his preparation period ahead of the

starting date of 17 August 2015. Sørby will assume

all the responsibilities in overseeing and running

Telenor Group's operations in Asia - and joins

Telenor's Group Executive Management team.

Morten Sørby, a Norwegian national, brings

significant operational and strategic mobile

telecommunications experience to the role as Head of

Region Asia. He joined Telenor in 1993 and has

previously been a member of the Telenor's Group

Executive Management team for a number of years. He

has served as the Executive Vice President in charge

of corporate strategy and regulatory affairs in

Telenor Group. Sørby was also the Executive Vice

President and head of the Norwegian and Nordic mobile

and fixed network operations of Telenor.

In 2014, Sørby was CEO of Uninor, Telenor's wholly

owned operations in India. During this period, the

company continued to strengthen, both in terms of

revenue and customer market share. Sørby holds a

Master of Science in Business Administration from the

University of Karlstad. He has also completed

additional education from IMD in Switzerland and is a

state-authorized public accountant in Norway.

"Morten brings his vast experience from the global

mobile industry to the role as head of our operations

in Asia. Morten will continue our growth story in

this dynamic region and I am confident that he will

put his deep industry insight into action together

with our operations in Asia," says Jon Fredrik

Baksaas, President and CEO, Telenor Group.

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