Lars Göran Josefsson

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Lars Göran Josefsson (born October 29, 1950 in Ulricehamn ) is a Swedish manager. From 2000 to 2010 he was President and CEO of the Swedish energy company Vattenfall AB .

Josefsson has at the prestigious Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg Engineering studied and graduated in 1973 as a Master of Science made. He later worked for the Swedish defense industry and as head of the Vienna branch of the telephone company Ericsson . From 1997 until the takeover by Saab in 2000, Josefsson was President and CEO of the defense company Celsius AB. He then moved to the head of Vattenfall.

In 2006, Chancellor Angela Merkel and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber appointed him as climate protection commissioner of the federal government for two years. In 2007, Josefsson was the main initiator of the so-called 3C initiative ("Combat Climate Change"), in which international companies have come together to fight climate change.

From 2008 to 2011 he was President of the umbrella association of the European electricity industry, Eurelectric , and from 2003 to 2012 Chairman of the German-Swedish Chamber of Commerce . In 2008 and 2009 he was a member of the Sustainability Commission of the Swedish government between 2008 and 2010, the Advisory Group of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in terms of energy and climate change .

Today Josefsson is a partner of Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG, member of the board of Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners, chairman and managing partner at BioElectric Solutions LGJ AB, member of the supervisory board of Robert Bosch GmbH and of the Swedish paper manufacturer Holmen AB and chairman of the board of the Scottish offshore energy company Burntisland Fabrication Ltd . He is honorary professor for physics at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus .

Josefsson is fluent in German and English. He is married with four children and lives in Stockholm . He holds several patents on radar technology.

Awards

  • Gold Medal of Honor of the City of Vienna , 1997
  • Time Magazine's "European Hero" , 2005
  • International Leadership Award from The Performance Theater Foundation, 2007

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website CSR Germany: Worldwide corporate initiative for climate protection founded. Retrieved June 8, 2016 .
  2. ↑ OilVoice website: Vattenfalls CEO Becomes UN Climate Adviser. (No longer available online.) June 18, 2009, archived from the original on June 8, 2016 ; accessed on June 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oilvoice.com
  3. ↑ Brookfield Renewable Web Site: Board of Directors. Retrieved June 7, 2016 .
  4. ^ BioElectric Solutions website: The Team. Retrieved June 7, 2016 .
  5. ^ Website of Robert Bosch GmbH: Supervisory Board. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 9, 2016 ; Retrieved June 7, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bosch.com
  6. ^ Website of The Performance Theater: Alumni. Retrieved June 8, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Josefsson, Lars Göran
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish manager
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulricehamn