Tom Hedelius

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(financier)
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Born3 October 1939
Lund, Sweden
NationalitySwedish
Double Bilderberg Swedish financier

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

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/19993 June 19996 June 1999Portugal
Sintra
The 47th Bilderberg, 111 participants
Bilderberg/200124 May 200127 May 2001Sweden
Stenungsund
The 49th Bilderberg, in Sweden. Reported on the WWW.
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