Years active 1987 to present Spouse Ulf Falkengren | Role Executive Name Annika Falkengren Children Louise Falkengren | |
Occupation Chief Executive of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, AB | ||
PwC's 18th Annual Global CEO Survey. Interview with Annika Falkengren of SEB
Annika Falkengren née Bolin (born 1962) is President and Group Chief Executive of the Swedish bank Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) since November 2005.
Contents
- PwCs 18th Annual Global CEO Survey Interview with Annika Falkengren of SEB
- Neurath mter Falkengren
- Early life
- Education and career
- Recognition
- References
Neurath möter Falkengren
Early life
Annika Falkengren was born 12 April 1962 in Thailand where her father was a diplomate.
Education and career
Falkengren holds a degree in economics from Stockholm University. After this, she applied for SEB’s holding trainee programme in 1987. She has worked for SEB since 1987, when she started as a trainee, worked in the Trading & Capital Markets division from 1988 until 2000, and was Head of the Corporate & Institutions division from 2001 until December 2004, when she was appointed by the board to succeed Lars H. Thunell on 1 January 2006, meanwhile serving as Deputy Group Chief Executive. As Thunell left for the World Bank, she eventually took office on 10 November 2005.
Falkengren also serves as chairperson of, Scania CV AB and FAM AB. A director of the Mentor Foundation and the IMD Foundation. Since January 2017, she is a managing partner of the Lombard Odier Group.
Falkengren was nominated to the Supervisory Board of Volkswagen in 2011. The media have often focused on her gender and her good looks and the fact she had a child in 2005 just a few months before entering her top position. Swedish business magazine Veckans Affärer named her the most powerful woman in Swedish business in 2005, and the Financial News Online has ranked her as No 68 among the "100 most influential people in European capital markets". In 2015, Fortune ranked her as the third most powerful woman in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Recognition
On Fortune's Most powerful women in global business 2008 Falkengren was ranked as number 7, being the second most powerful businesswoman in Europe and in 2010 was ranked number 8 globally.