Press release
29 January 2024
Swedbank's Nomination Committee - proposal to the Annual
General Meeting on 26 March 2024
·
Proposed for
re-election to the Board of Directors: Göran Persson,
Göran
Bengtsson, Annika
Creutzer, Hans
Eckerström, Kerstin Hermansson, Helena
Liljedahl, Anna Mossberg, Per Olof Nyman,
Biljana Pehrsson
and Biörn Riese. Bengt-Erik Lindgren has declined
re-election.
·
Göran Persson is
proposed as Chair of the Board of Directors.
·
PwC AB is
proposed for re-election of as external auditor.
The
Nomination Committee's proposal entails that the number of board
members elected by the general meeting should be ten, i.e. one less
than in 2023, of which five are men and five are
women.
Independence according to the Swedish Corporate Governance
Code
All proposed board members, except
Göran Bengtsson, are considered independent in relation to the bank
and the management of the bank. All proposed board members are
considered independent in relation to the major shareholders of the
bank.
"Swedbank´s Board of Directors is
functioning well under the leadership of Göran Persson and the
board members' competences have developed further over the year.
Bengt-Erik Lindgren has declined re-election, and the Nomination
Committee would like to thank him for his contributions to the
Board of Directors," says Lennart Haglund, Chair of the Nomination
Committee.
The Nomination Committee proposes
that the lawyer Wilhelm Lüning is appointed Chair of the Annual
General Meeting 2024.
The Nomination Committee consists of
the following members: Lennart Haglund, Chair, (Sparbankernas
Ägareförening), Ylva Wessén (the owner-group Folksam), Anders
Oscarsson (AMF and AMF Funds), Annette Björkman (the owner-group
Sparbanksstiftelserna), Peter Lundkvist (Tredje AP-fonden), and
Göran Persson (Chair of the Board of Directors of
Swedbank).
The entire proposal of the
Nomination Committee, including proposal on remuneration for board
members and auditors, Principles
on how the Nomination Committee shall be appointed and
Instruction for the Nomination
Committee, will be presented in connection to the convening
notice for the Annual General Meeting and be available on
Swedbank's website.
Swedbank's Annual General Meeting
will take place on 26 March 2024.
For
further information, please contact:
Lennart Haglund, Chair of the
Nomination Committee, telephone: +46 705 575 129.
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