Tom Hedelius
 Tom Hedelius    (financier) | |
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| Born | 3 October 1939 Lund, Sweden |
| Nationality | Swedish |
Tom Hedelius is a Swedish business leader. He was CEO and Chairman of the Board of Svenska Handelsbanken 1978-2001.
Career
Hedelius graduated in economics in 1965. Hedelius became Handelsbanken's CEO in 1978, when he succeeded Jan Wallander. In 1991, he was succeeded as CEO by Arne Mårtensson and became chairman of the board, a position he retained until 2001. In 2002, he became chairman of Industrivärden. He has also held a large number of board assignments in other Swedish companies, such as AGA, Addtech (chairman), Bahco , B&B Tools (chairman), Industrivärden (chairman),LM Ericsson, Lagercrantz, Le Carbon, Lundbergs, Volvo Cars, Volvo Trucks, Siemens, SCA , Scandinavian Airlines, Sandrews, Pååls, and others.
Together with Jan Wallander, Hedelius created the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation, one of the Handelsbanken Foundations, which awards scholarships for socio-economic research. The foundation has, among other things, funded a professorship in business administration with a special focus on accounting and finance at the Stockholm School of Economics.
He was appointed by the Swedish School of Management Association as a member of the Stockholm School of Economics' Executive Board 1999–2007. In 2005, he received the Economic Research Institute at the Stockholm School of Economics' annual prize, called the SSE Research Award (formerly EFI Research Award) to individuals who "actively contributed to creating good conditions for research in the administrative and economic sciences".[1]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1999 | 3 June 1999 | 6 June 1999 | Portugal Sintra | The 47th Bilderberg, 111 participants |
| Bilderberg/2001 | 24 May 2001 | 27 May 2001 | Sweden Stenungsund | The 49th Bilderberg, in Sweden. Reported on the WWW. |
