Reidar Nordby Jr.

Biography

Nordby has served as CEO of Norsk Tipping since 1989, and holds or has held many leadership positions in the lottery industry including that of Chairman of Viking Lotto, a multi-national lottery game that is played in Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland. Ironically enough International Lottery Expo is being held at the Hotel Viking in Newport.

He is also the initiator of the WLA Security Control Standards and hosted lotteries from around the world in Oslo in 1999 at a combined meeting of AILE and Intertoto which led to the official merger of both groups last year in Scotland, forming the World Lottery Association.

After serving on the WLA Executive Committee and the Transition Task Force, Nordby was elected President to lead the world lotteries of the WLA.

He received the Order in appreciation for his work for Sweden and active contribution to the co-operation between Sweden and Norway.

During International Lottery Expo, in Newport, Rhode Island, Nordby received the Major Peter J. O’Connell Lifetime Lottery Achievement Award and was honoured at a presentation ceremony.Nordby is the first recipient of this Award to come from outside North America.

He is an engineer and resides in Oslo with his wife Anne. They have a son and a daughter.