Martin Lundstedt
Martin Lundstedt (business executive) | |
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Born | 28 April 1967 Mariestad, Sweden |
Nationality | Swedish |
Alma mater | Chalmers University of Technology |
Member of | European Round Table of Industrialists |
President and CEO of car and truck manufacturer Volvo Group since 2015. He attended the 2022 Bilderberg meeting.
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Martin Lundstedt is a Swedish businessman and has been President and CEO of the Volvo Group since 22 October 2015.[1] He has 25 years' experience of development, production and sales within the heavy automotive industry.
He is a member of the lobby group European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT)[2] He attended the 2022 Bilderberg meeting.
Education
Lundstedt studied at Chalmers University of Technology and graduated with an MSc
Career
Following his exam, Lundstedt joined Scania as a trainee in 1992 and held a number of senior management positions during his 23 years with the company. He became president and CEO at Scania in 2012 and remained in that position until joining the Volvo Group.
Volvo Cars, owned by China's Geely, has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2040 and to stop selling new vehicles powered by combustion fuels by 2030.[3]
Events Participated in
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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Bilderberg/2022 | 2 June 2022 | 5 June 2022 | US Washington DC Mandarin Oriental Hotel | The 68th Bilderberg Meeting, held in Washington DC, after an unprecedented two year hiatus during which a lot of the Bilderberg regulars were busy managing COVID-19 |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2019 | 22 January 2019 | 25 January 2019 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | "The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one." |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2020 | 21 January 2020 | 24 January 2020 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting. |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2022 | 22 May 2022 | 26 May 2022 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 1912 guests in Davos |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2023 | 16 January 2023 | 20 January 2023 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | The theme of the meeting was "Cooperation in a Fragmented World" |