Jacob Wallenberg

Chairman, Investor AB Business Circle

Jacob Wallenberg is the non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Investor AB, an anchor lead shareholder of Nordic-based international companies.  He is Vice Chairman of ABB Ltd, Ericsson AB, SAS AB/Scandinavian Airlines, FAM AB and Patricia Industries.

Mr. Wallenberg also serves on the Boards of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, The Stockholm School of Economics and The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise.

Mr. Wallenberg is Honorary Chairman of IBLAC, the Mayor of Shanghai’s International Business Leaders Advisory Council, Vice-Chairman of SACC-US, the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce US and a member of the steering committee of ERT, the European Round Table of Industrialists.

He is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Atlantic Council, Washington DC, as well as the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum.

Born in Stockholm 1956, Mr. Wallenberg was educated at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics in 1980 and an MBA in 1981.

Mr. Wallenberg attended the Royal Swedish Naval Academy and is today an Officer in the Royal Swedish Naval Reserve.