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Norges Bank, Norway’s central bank, plays a wide role in the country’s financial system, from promoting stability through its executive and advisory activities to ensuring payment systems and financial markets are robust and efficient. It also manages the Government Pension Fund, one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds. General counsel Marius Ryel holds ultimate responsibility for providing legal advice to the institution’s executive board and executive management. Ryel has held this challenging and hugely important role since 2012, having already served from 2005 to 2012 as Norges Bank’s director of legal. Before joining Norges Bank he spent six years as general counsel to Finanstilsynet, Norway’s financial services authority. Between 1996 and 1998 he was a partner at law firm Wikborg Rein and, before that, director of the legal department at the Oslo Stock Exchange. He has served as a judge at Stream County Court and was a consultant, senior executive and legal adviser in the Legislation Department of the Ministry of Justice.