Annika Falkengren

Annika Falkengren is president and group chief executive of the Swedish bank Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) since November 2005.

Falkengren holds a degree in economics from Stockholm University. She has worked for SEB since 1987, when she started as a trainee, worked in the Trading & Capital Markets division from 1988 until 2000, and was head of the Corporate & Institutions division from 2001 until December 2004, when she was appointed by the board to succeed Lars H. Thunell on 1 January 2006, meanwhile serving as Deputy Group Chief Executive. As Thunell left for the World Bank, she eventually took office on 10 November 2005.

Falkengren also serves as chairperson of Enskilda Securities AB and director of Ruter Dam. A director of the Mentor Foundation and the IMD Foundation.

In 2011, Volkswagen Group announced that Annika Falkengren will be nominated to the Supervisory Board of the company. Munich Re then announced that Annika Falkengren will be nominated to the Supervisory Board of the company.

The media have often focused on her gender and her good looks and the fact she had a child in 2005 just a few months before entering her top position. Swedish business magazine Veckans Affärer named her the most powerful woman in Swedish business in 2005 and the Financial News Online has ranked her as No. 68 among the "100 most influential people in European capital markets."