The think tank’s director and founder is Anders Olshov. He has a degree in economics from the Stockholm School of Economics and a post-graduate degree from Amsterdam School of International Relations.
Anders Olshov started his career as political editor and financial journalist at Nerikes Allehanda, Liberala Nyhetsbyrån, Dagens Industri and Finanstidningen in Sweden. He worked as a macroeconomist and FX and fixed income analyst at Carnegie Investment Bank 1992-1994 and Nordea Bank 1994-2002. He founded the Oresund Institute in 2002 and was its director until 2014. In December 2015 he founded Intelligence Watch where he has distinguished himself as a debater, launched ”the Malmö-Lund city” and initiated Japan Bridge Scandinavia, where he is a board member. In 2010 he was named ”Economist of the year” in Skåne by Economy Forum Skåne/Executive Foundation Lund. His book about the Oresund region as Copenhagen’s untapped opportunity was published by Gyldendal in Swedish and Danish in 2013.
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Torbjörn Hamnmark has a degree in Economics and an eMBA in Leading Innovation from the Stockholm School of Economics .
Torbjörn Hamnmark has broad experience from various functions in the financial market, first as a market maker and risk manager of equity and fixed income derivatives (the Investor sphere, Carnegie, SEB and Citibank), later as head of fixed income management (Skandia and DnBNOR) and head of strategic allocation (Third AP Fund). He has held positions as both an “intermediary”, asset manager and capital owner. His professional career has led him to assignments in financial centers such as Chicago, Frankfurt and London. Over the past decade, Torbjörn has been interested in the underlying driving forces of society, both to understand what shapes economic, financial and social development and to understand how society and the economic machine itself can be affected by its actors. Today, Torbjörn is a board member of WWF (World Wildlife Fund) Sweden and the state research foundation Mistra, in both cases with the board’s assignment to oversee the respective foundation’s asset management.