Nicolai Tangen

Nicolai Tangen   (spook, hedge fund manager)
Born	1966 Kristiandsand
Nationality	Norwegian
Member of	The Giving Pledge
Chief Executive Officer Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund In office September 2020 - Present spook, hedge fund manager

Nicolai Tangen is a Norwegian hedge fund manager and appointed CEO of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund.

Career

Tangen was trained in interrogation and translation (Russian) in the Norwegian Intelligence Service (E-tjenesten), before he attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania as an undergraduate from 1988-92. He holds Master's degrees in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London and in Social Psychology from the London School of Economics, and likes to present himself as an art supporter.

Tangen was an analyst at Cazenove & Co. before moving to Egerton Capital in 1997. Tangen left Egerton Capital in 2002. In 2005, he launched AKO Capital, a London-based hedge fund, which has £10.8 billion of assets under management.

Parts of his fortune is placed in the banking centre Cayman Islands, on the EU tax haven blacklist

In September 2020, he will become the chief executive officer (CEO) at Norges Bank Investment Management, responsible for managing the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund (Statens Pensjonsfond Utland), with over over US$1 trillion in assets, including 1.4% of global stocks and shares.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
WEF/Annual Meeting/2023	16 January 2023	20 January 2023	Switzerland World Economic Forum	The theme of the meeting was "Cooperation in a Fragmented World"

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