Hans Dalborg

Who is Hans Dalborg?

Hans Folkeson Dalborg is a Swedish business executive, who was chairman of the board of Nordea from 2002 to 2011.

Dalborg completed a B.A. degree in Slavic languages at Uppsala University, where he was an active member of the Juvenalorden and a member of Kruthornen, the band of the Västmanlands-Dala nation. He later studied economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, where he completed a doctorate in 1974.

He worked for the insurance company Skandia from 1972 and was Chief Executive Officer of Skandia International Insurance Corporation from 1989 until 1991, becoming President and CEO of Nordbanken AB 1991–97, remaining as President and Group CEO of MeritaNordbanken PLC 1998–99, and President and CEO of Nordea Bank AB from 2000 until 2004. He has been chairman of the board of Nordea from 2002 until 2011. Dalborg lead Nordbanken from the troubled period of the early 1990s, through the merger with the Finnish bank Merita and transformation into the modern Nordea.