Legal Era Magazine recounts the meteoric rise to fame of an international lawyer who started out as an actor…
Leader, lawyer, writer, public speaker, Karate black belt, actor… BJARNE P. TELLMANN is indeed a man of multiple talents… Currently, BJARNE leads a 170-strong pack across functions and continents, as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel of Pearson and Member of its Executive Team, even as he continues to pursue his other passions.
Wonder Years
Born to a Norwegian diplomat father and a New York-based teacher mother, BJARNE spent his growing up years in Paris, Cairo, New York and Oslo, and had the good fortune of living and working all over the world. Not surprisingly, he is fluent in five languages, including English, German, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish.
BJARNE boasts glowing academic credentials: an Advanced Management Program (AMP) from Harvard Business School; J.D. (with Honors) from The University of Chicago Law School; M.Sc. (Econ.), International Relations, from The London School of Economics; B.A. (Summa cum Laude), Political Science, from Boston University; and Post Graduate Diploma (with merit), European Competition Law, from King’s College, University of London; among others.
BJARNE started out, rather unconventionally, as a professional actor, landing plum roles in a couple of Norwegian films and a Swedish television show to boot. Eventually though, he opted for a career in law, beginning his professional journey as an Associate Attorney in the New York office of White & Case LLP.
Career Graph
BJARNE experienced, first-hand, the firm’s global reach when he was sent to its Stockholm office on what was supposed to be a six-week assignment, working on the restructuring of The Coca-Cola Company’s Scandinavian bottling operations. Little did BJARNE imagine that the “brief” task would balloon into over 20 years in various roles across the world with multiple organizations, before he would return to New York.
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