Background
Dalborg, Hans Folkeson was born on May 21, 1941 in Säter, Sweden.
Dalborg, Hans Folkeson was born on May 21, 1941 in Säter, Sweden.
Dalborg completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Slavic languages at Uppsala University, where he was an active member of the Juvenalorden and a member of Kruthornen, the band of the Västmanlands-Dala nation. He later studied economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, where he completed a doctorate in 1974.
He worked for the insurance company Skandia from 1972 and was Chief Executive Officer of Skandia International Insurance Corporation from 1989 until 1991, becoming President and Chief Executive Officer of Nordbanken Bachelor of Arts 1991-1997, remaining as President and Group Chief Executive Officer of MeritaNordbanken Public Limited Company 1998-1999, and President and Chief Executive Officer of Nordea Bank Bachelor of Arts from 2000 until 2004. He has been chairman of the board of Nordea from 2002 until 2011. Dalborg lead Nordbanken from the troubled period of the early 1990s, through the merger with the Finnish bank Merita (during which he learned Finnish) and transformation into the modern Nordea.
Dalborg is chairman of the board of the Royal Swedish Opera, was appointed chairman of the consistory of Uppsala University in 2003, and elected president praeses of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences for 2005-2007, of which he has been a member since 1996.
Married Ljungqvist Dalborg. 3 children.