BOARD OF DIRECTORS
STEFAN PERSSON Chairman of the Board. Born 1947. 1969 – 1973 Stockholm University and Lund University. 1976 – 1982 Country Manager for H&M in the UK and responsible for H&M’s expansion abroad. 1982 – 1998 President and CEO of H&M. 1998 –2020 Chairman of the Board at H&M. Other board positions in family companies.
ELISABETH TAMM Board member. Born 1947.
CHARLOTTE SÖDERSTRÖM Board member. Born 1977.
Elisabeth has degrees in law and business administration from Uppsala University. After a period as a notary she was employed at the Swedish Tax Agency in Stockholm. She has also been head of tax and family law at Carnegie and Ålandsbanken.
Charlotte read market e conomics at IIU. Up until the age of 21 she was active as a competition rider in equestrian sports and today she runs the Stuteri Arch stud farm in Skåne in Southern Sweden. The stud farm breeds, trains and sells jumping horses and in 2018 the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (Fédération Equestre Internationale – FEI) named her as its Owner of the Year. Charlotte is also project manager for the sponsorship project H&M Loves Horses.
Elisabeth is chair of or holds other positions of responsibility at a number of foundations, including the Alba Langenskiöld Foundation that is associated with publishing house Langenskiöld, the Foundation for the Astrid Lindgren Children’s H ospital, the Tranås Säteri Foundation and Sällskapet för Makarna Malmqvists minne.
Board member at family companies and of Haga Gårdsförvaltning.
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