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According to the Statutes of the NRCC, individuals who has promoted the purposes of the Chamber through their activities within the Russian-Norwegian Trade and Industrial Cooperation and who have deserved this, can after suggestion by the General Assembly of the NRCC, be appointed honorary members of the NRCC.

By primo January 2011, the following individuals are honorary members of the Norwegian-Russian Chamber of Commerce.

	Leonid Reiman Reiman has held several top positions in Russian telecom companies and ministerial positions in several Russian governments, hereunder, he was a Minister of Telecommunications in the period 2004-2008. For his contribution to improving Norwegian-Russian relations, in May 2007 he was awarded honorary membership in the NRCC. The ceremony took part during a regular session of the Norwegian-Russian Joint Commission in Oslo, Norway.
	Oeyvind Nordsletten Ambassador Nordsletten has for more than 40 years worked in various official positions with issues in relation to the Soviet union and the Russian Federation. Nordsletten started his service for the Ministry of Foreign affairs in 1974 and at served at the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow from 1979 to 1982 as a diplomat of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1992 to 1996 he served as Norway’s Ambassador to Ukraine. From 1997 to 2000 he was Director General at the office of the Prime Minister of Norway. From 2000 to 2008, Nordsletten served as Norway’s ambassador to Russia in Moscow and is presently Norway’s ambassador to Ireland. Nordsletten was awarded honorary membership of the NRCC in December 2008.
	Elnar Seljevold FrFrom 1955 till 1969 Seljevold worked as interpreter and assistant for Norwegian Border Commissioner, and took an active part in the development of Norwegian-Soviet relations. In 1965-1966 he became the director of Nordhandel AS, a trading company which existed to 1973 when the company was formally closed down. This initiative was the first attempt to develop traditional trade across the border in the High North. From 1977 till 1980 Elnar Seljevold became the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporations correspondent in Moscow, and from 1988 to 1990 managing director of NBC Ostfold. He is author of several books and is for several years engaged in a training program for journalists from the Russian High North in Norway. Seljevold was awarded honorary membership in the NRCC in December 2008.
	Kaare Karlstad In the second half of the 1970ies, the Norwegian-Finnish company Pomor Nordic Trade, Tromsø, was established by director Kaare Karlstad, Finnsnes. He started import of wooden materials, frozen capelin, berries and other products from the North-Western district of the Soviet Union to Norway. In 1982-1983 Karlstad was allowed by the two Border Commissioners to initiate pilot trade crossings across the common border. He established a pallet production factory, Pomor Industries, in Kirkenes based on imported pre-cut materials across the border from the Soviet Union, and a transport company transporting the materials to the factory. A coastal liner was owned by Karlstad sailing cargo from Murmansk to Northern Norway. Karlstad was soon nick-named “Pomor Karlstad” as his initiative indeed was a revival of the old Pomor Trade between the two regions Iin the Russian High North. Director Kaare Karlstad was a pioneer in a time with serious challenges hardly understood today, including f.instance centralized foreign trade monopolies, Cold War and a solid Iron Curtain. His initiatives were in many ways the starting signals for the later Barents regional cooperation. Karlstad surpassed all obstacles, and - in cooperation with his Soviet partner Lenfintorg. Karlstad was awarded honorary membership in the NRCC in December 2009.
	Nils-Edvard Olsen Mr. Nils-Edvard Olsen (NEO) was deputy mayor from 1980 – 1982 and mayor from 1982-1990 in the Municipality of South-Varanger in the Norwegian High North. He got the tough challenge of restructuring a one-sided industrial location in urgent need of transformation and realization of alternative working places. Throughout the 1980ies NEO laboriously promoted the municipality with the aim of attracting attention from regional and central authorities about the various needs of the population in the bordering municipality. An investment company, South - Varanger Investments, was soon established with an aim of developing alternative businesses. Nils-Edvard Olsen used every opportunity at oil-conferences, both in Norway and in the Soviet Union, to underline the importance of the need for getting started with oil and gas activity in the Barents sea, - and naturally for a mayor of South Varanger , promoting his municipality as the gateway to the Barents Sea and the Soviet market. During his mayoral period, several companies were established having the USSR as market as f.instance Kimek, Barents Company, Grenseland and similar. Olsen was awarded honorary membership in the NRCC in December 2009.
	Tor B. Naess Cross border cooperation with the Soviet Union in the High North in the 1980-s would not have been possible without support from central authorities in Oslo. A key role player during these processes, was ambassador Tor Berntin Naess, who in the 1980ies in the Ministry of Trade. Mr. Naess is cand. oecon and held various positions in the former Ministry of Trade, particularly related to trade with previously State trading countries, COMECON, and amongst them the Soviet Union. He served as Chair of the Norwegian delegation of the Working Group of the Joint Norwegian – Soviet Commission for Technical, Economic an Industrial Cooperation in the 1980ies and the beginning of the 1990ies. He was working closely together with Norwegian industry - always acting constructive, supportive and finding solutions to the many challenges that arouse in these chaotic years. From 1989 Director General Berntin Naess of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) was leading the negotiations regarding a new GATT agreement. From 1996 – 2000 he was appointed Norway`s ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg, in the years 2001 – 2004 he worked as special advisor in the MFA also in relation to issues regarding the Russian market, worked as temporary ambassador in Bangkok after the tsunami, a shorter period thereafter as ambassador in Switzerland, before he was appointed Norway`s ambassador to Canada in the period 2005 – 2009. Tor B. Næss is presently working with the ongoing EFTA – Russia, Belaruss, Khazakstan negotiations and issues related to Russian membership to WTO. Naess was awarded honorary membership in the NRCC in December 2009.

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