Background
Falkengren, Annika was born in 1962.
Falkengren, Annika was born in 1962.
Stockholm University.
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 Enskilda Securities Bachelor of Arts and director of Ruter Dam. A director of the Mentor Foundation and the Institute for Management Development Foundation.
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 Number 68 among the "100 most influential people in European capital markets".
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.