Viggo Johannessen should not be confused with Viggo Johansen.
Viggo Johannessen (6 February 1936 – 21 June 2012) was a Norwegian director and civil servant.
He was born at Nøtterøy in 1936.[1] In 1963, he graduated from the University of Oslo with a cand.real. degree. From 1960 to 72, Johannessen worked as a scientist at the Institute of Transport Economics; for the rest of the decade he acted as managing director of Linjegods.[1] In 1982, after ten years at Linjegods, he became the managing director of the three Oslo local transport authorities Oslo Sporveier, Ekebergbanen and Holmenkolbanen.[2] In 1985, Johannessen left the director's office in order to become chief administrative officer of finance (Norwegian: finansrådmann) of Oslo Municipality. In 1991, he returned to Oslo Sporveier as special adviser, and, in the following year became division director of the same company.[1] He died in 2012.[3]