Helge Kringstad (born 10 July 1943) is a Norwegian banker, civil servant, and politician for the Labour Party.
He was born in Veøy.[1] He took the cand.jur. degree in 1969, and worked as a deputy judge in Hammerfest until 1970. He worked as a lawyer for various companies between 1970 and 1977, and then became an assisting secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Trade.[2] In 1980 he became director of the Norwegian Guarantee Institute for Export Credits.[3] In late 1987 he was hired as CEO of DnC Kredittforsikring.[4] He was given an absence of leave, and Erik Holtedahl became acting director[5] before Erling Naper took over in 1989.[6] After the 1990 merger in DnC, the company for which Kringstad was CEO was named DnB Garanti og Kredittforsikring.
From September 1991 to September 1992 he was a State Secretary for development cooperation affairs in Brundtland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[7] In 1994 he was appointed as executive director of the EBRD.[8] He later became a lawyer again.
Kringstad has been a member of Norges Eksportråd, a board member of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, and vice president of the International Union of Credit and Investment Insurers.[2] He has been a board chairman of the company Norway Registers Development; deputy chair at the time was Finn Kristensen.[9] He resides in Blommenholm.[1]