Urban Bäckström

Urban Bäckström    ( economist,  central banker)
Born	25 May 1954  Sollefteå,  Västernorrlands län,  Sweden
Nationality	Swedish
Alma mater	Stockholm University
Member of	Trilateral Commission
Party	Moderatarna
Former Governor of the Bank of Sweden. BIS Chairman and President from 1999 to 2002. Attended the 2010 Bilderberg as DG of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise  Confederation of Swedish Enterprise/Director General In office 2005 - 2014  BIS/Chairman,  BIS/President In office 1 March 1999 - 28 February 2002 Succeeded by Nout Wellink  Governor of the Bank of Sweden In office 1994 - 2002 Bilderberg/2010

Urban Bäckström is a Swedish economist who was CEO of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise from 2005 to 2014, where he attended the 2010 Bilderberg, and governor of the Bank of Sweden from 1994 to 2002. He was BIS Chairman and President from 1999 to 2002.

Personal

Bäckström grew up in Visby and Helsingborg and graduated with a degree in economics from Stockholm University. He is married to Ewa, who works for SAS. The couple has two children.

Career

Urban Bäckström started his career at the Ministry of Finance during the Thorbjörn Fälldin government. He was later the chief economist for the centre-right Moderate Party. While state secretary at the Ministry of Finance he was involved among other things in the management of Sweden's financial crisis of the early 1990s. In 1994 he was appointed governor of the Bank of Sweden. After the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Bäckström worked to restabilize the krona, which had begun to be affected by the worldwide crisis during the second quarter of 1998. As one of his duties as governor, he served on the board of directors of the Bank for International Settlements.

Having resigned in 2002, he was appointed CEO of Skandia Liv, part of the Skandia group of insurance companies. In 2005 he became CEO of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, which represents larger companies and employers.

He has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences since 2003.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2010	3 June 2010	6 June 2010	Spain Hotel Dolce Sitges Barcelona	The 122 guests met in the Hotel Dolce Sitges, Barcelona, Spain.
Jackson Hole/Meeting/1995	31 August 1995	2 September 1995		The 1995 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium
Jackson Hole/Meeting/1996	29 August 1996	31 August 1996		The 1996 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium
Jackson Hole/Meeting/1997	28 August 1997	30 August 1997		The 1997 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium
Jackson Hole/Meeting/1999	26 August 1999	28 August 1999		The 1999 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium
Jackson Hole/Meeting/2001				The 2001 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium
Tylösand Summit/2004		August 2004	Sweden Tylösand Halland	Yearly "Davos of the Nordics", with many Swedish deep state actors, including the Wallenbergs. No media coverage, only the list of speakers is known.
Tylösand Summit/2005	August 2005	August 2005	Sweden Tylösand Halland	Yearly "Davos of the Nordics", with many Swedish deep state actors, including the Wallenbergs. No media coverage, only the list of speakers is known.
Tylösand Summit/2008	August 2008	August 2008	Sweden Tylösand Halland	Yearly "Davos of the Nordics", with many Swedish deep state actors, including the Wallenbergs. No media coverage, only the list of speakers is known.
Tylösand Summit/2010	25 August 2010	25 August 2010	Sweden Tylösand Halland	Yearly "Davos of the Nordics", with many Swedish deep state actors, including the Wallenbergs. No media coverage, only the list of speakers is known.

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