Odd Olsen Ingerø is a Norwegian civil servant and currently serving as the Governor of Svalbard.

He was born in Skjeberg

Skjeberg

Skjeberg is a former municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The last administrative centre was Borgenhaugen.The parish of Skjeberg was established as a municipality January 1, 1838...

. In 2005 he was appointed director of Kripos

Kripos

Den nasjonale enhet for bekjempelse av organisert og annen alvorlig kriminalitet is a Norwegian special police division under the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police....

. He was the Governor of Svalbard

Governor of Svalbard

The Governor of Svalbard represents the Norwegian government in exercising its sovereignty over the Svalbard archipelago .The position reports to the Norwegian Ministry of Justice, but it maintains all Norwegian interests in the area, including environmental protection, law enforcement,...

 between 2001 and 2005. He was succeeded by Sven Ole Fagernæs

Sven Ole Fagernæs

Sven Ole Fagernæs is a Norwegian jurist and civil servant.He was born in Oslo, and was hired in the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police in 1973. From 1976 he worked in the Office of the Attorney General of Norway...

, and was preceded by Morten Ruud

Morten Ruud

Morten Ruud is a Norwegian civil servant.Ruud graduated as cand.jur. in 1974 from the University of Oslo, and took the Norwegian National Defence College in 1985...

. Before this he was chief of police in Sør-Varanger

Sør-Varanger

Sør-Varanger is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kirkenes. Sør-Varanger was separated from the municipality of Vadsø on 1 July 1858.-Name:...

 and Fredrikstad

Fredrikstad

is a city and municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Fredrikstad....

. He has also been a deputy judge.

He became Governor for a second term on 16 September, 2009, succeeding Per Sefland

Per Sefland

Per Ottar Sefland is a previous Governor of Svalbard. He served from 1 October 2005 to 16 September 2009.Sefland was born in Evje, and his family later moved to Larvik. He married in 1972, and has two daughters....

, who held the post from 2005 to 2009.