Marcus Storch
Marcus Storch (born July 28, 1942 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish engineer and industrialist.
Life
Hillel Storch's son obtained his engineering degree from the Royal Technical University in Stockholm and from 1968 worked for the gas producer Aktiebolaget Gas-Accumulator (AGA), of which he was CEO and President from 1981 to 1996.
He is a board member of numerous companies: Mekonomen, Axel Johnson AB, Nordstjernan, NCC and Dagens Industri. From 2005 to 2013 he was chairman of the Nobel Foundation . He criticized the fact that Swedish companies are being taken over by foreign owners.
Storch funded the Raoul Wallenberg Memorial in New York. After the death of their son Tobias (1991) in Sweden, he and his wife Gunilla founded the "Tobias Register" to facilitate bone marrow and stem cell transplants.
In 1996 he received an honorary doctorate in medicine from the Karolinska Institute. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Previous Chairmen of the Nobel Foundation. Nobel Media AB, 2014, accessed April 6, 2016 .
- ^ Monument dedicated to Raoul Wallenberg unveiled in New York. International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, accessed April 6, 2016 .
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| SURNAME | Stork, Marcus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish engineer and industrialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |