The committee

Morten Kjellesvig started flying gliders in 1978, served 15 years in the Royal Norwegian Air Force flying the F-16, and has flown the MD-80, Boeing 737 and Airbus 330/340 for SAS. His background is in safety and accident investigation, and he holds an MSc in Air Safety Management from City University London. He runs ScandiAvia.

He taught Safety Risk Management and Accident Investigation at City University London until March 2020, and has also taught at USC and UiT. Morten has left SAS and worked until August 2025 for the Royal Norwegian Air Force flight safety inspectorate. He has led FoF since 2012, and in April 2023 received the Civil Aviation Authority of Norway’s safety award.

Geir Nedregård entered the Royal Norwegian Air Force Flying School in 1982 and trained as a helicopter pilot. He served 12 years with 330 Squadron as a pilot, instructor and section chief before joining SAS as a pilot, where he flew the DC-9, B737, A330 and A340 alongside a number of administrative posts.

He holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Air Transport Management from City University London and a part-time position at UiT. Since 2022 he has been involved in the launch of Norse Atlantic Airways as chief pilot and head of flight operations, as well as flying the B787.

Hans Skog-Andersen has a long and broad background in Norwegian aviation, trained as a helicopter pilot by the Royal Norwegian Air Force. Early in his career he took a strong interest in flight safety, and has led and investigated several accidents and incidents. It has shaped his entire working life — the focus on flight safety has never left it.

He has built civilian flying experience on several helicopter types and on fixed wing on the B737, with operators including CHC Helikopter Service, Braathens SAFE, SAS, Lufttransport and Babcock International. Over the years he has held a series of management posts as AM, NPFO and CP, and gained extensive experience across many years as a CRM (Crew Resource Management) instructor.

Today he works as a captain and instructor for CHC Helikopter Service on the SK 92 — a career he brings to a close when he retires in November 2026.

Narve Jensen is a retired air traffic controller (ATC supervisor) from the Oslo Fornebu and Gardermoen control towers, 43 years in all. A model aviation enthusiast since the early 1960s, he has been active in the national organisation since 1977 and internationally as Norway’s delegate to the FAI since 1979. Since 1995 he has been “Chairman of the Scale Subcommittee in the modeling section (CIAM) of the FAI”.

Bjørn Bjerke began his flying career at the Norwegian Aviation College (NAC) at Bardufoss in 1992, graduated in 1995 and joined SAS in 1997. He has flown the DC-9, MD-80 and B737, and is now current on the A320. He has taken leave from SAS twice: once to fly as a B737 captain for Viking Airlines, and for two years as captain of a private Boeing BBJ based in Moscow.

Alongside the flying, Bjørn runs a small software company with two pilot colleagues. It makes myRoster, an app for flight crew used by staff at a number of airlines.

Walter Schwyzer gave his first presentation at Flyoperativt Forum in 2014, on using FDM to spot trends in loss of control in-flight events. He has been a regular invited speaker at conferences across Europe, Eurasia and Asia ever since. His subjects range from human factors to training that explores the couplings and complexity of the socio-technical aviation system. Others have included pilot monitoring, a case study on TK1951, naturalistic aeronautical decision making, the criminalization of accidents, and training for airmanship.

Walter holds an engineering degree in air safety management, was a non-commissioned officer in the Swiss Air Force, and before aviation took a degree in mechanical technology while working in that field for major car manufacturers. Today he flies the A330 for a major Asian operator, holds several aircraft and instructor ratings, and is a qualified air safety investigator. He has been a member of ISASI, RAeS, EAAP and The Flight Safety Foundation for many years.

Tor Einar Huus took the modular route into aviation: flight training in the USA, ATPL theory in England and six years of building hours from 2013 to 2019, with the licences converted to European ones in Sweden in 2019. During his training he worked in ground operations at Haugesund Airport Karmøy and Kristiansand Airport Kjevik, giving him wide experience of flight operations support and ground handling. He joined SAS in 2019, first on the Boeing 737, was out of the company in 2021–2022 during the pandemic, returned in January 2023 and flew the Airbus A320 until March 2025. He now flies the A330, and will in time fly mixed A320/A330.

Alongside the flying he has built broad IT expertise. A self-taught developer, he later completed a three-year formal IT degree full time in parallel with his flying career. In 2021–2022 he worked full time as a developer in retail security, with lead responsibility for the systems behind electronic shelf labels and footfall counting and customer analytics delivered to larger Nordic retail chains, as well as building internal tools and processes. His experience spans network infrastructure, server operations, backup, CI/CD, full stack, monitoring and automation, and he continues to take on work focused on dependable, scalable systems.