Christian Peter Dyvig (born 11 October 1964) is a Danish lawyer, businessman and investor. He is the CEO and founder of C. P. Dyvig & Co. in
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...
.
Career
Dyvig obtained a
LL:M: degree from
University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public research university in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia after Uppsala Unive ...
in 1987. He then practiced as a lawyer at
Reumert & Partnere and served as an external lecturer in Human Rights at University of Copenhagen until 1992 when he went to Switzerland where he obtained an MBA with honours from the
International Institute for Management Development
International Institute for Management Development (IMD) is a private business school in Lausanne, Switzerland specializes in executive education offering open enrollment programs for senior executives, as well as longer-term educational engageme ...
in 1993.
From October 1993 he worked for
Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is an American multinational investment management and financial services company headquartered at 1585 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. With offices in more than 41 countries and more than 75,000 employees, the fir ...
in London and later Frankfurt where he served as a Managing Director in the Mergers and Acquisitions Department where he headed up the Nordic and the German activity. . He was a partner in
Nordic Capital
Nordic Capital private equity funds focus on investments primarily in Northern Europe. Nordic Capital invests in selective industries with a particular focus on Healthcare, Tech & Payments and Financial Services. In addition selective investments ...
from 2009 until 2009 when he became CTO of Lundbeckfonden and established his own firm In 2009, C. P. Dyrvig & Co..
Private life
Christian Dyvig is the son of Peter Dyvig, a former Danish ambassador to London, Washington and Paris. He is married to lawyer Mia F. Stefansen and lives in
Hellerup
Hellerup () is a very affluent district of Gentofte Municipality in the suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. The most urban part of the district is centred on Strandvejen and is bordered by Østerbro to the south and the Øresund to the east. It compr ...
. His interests include ballet and he is a board member of the
Royal Danish Ballet's Foundation.
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Further reading
* Lunde, Niels:
100 topledere; guide til dansk erhvervsliv
'. Akademisk Forlag. 2011.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dyrvig, Christian
1964 births
Living people
20th-century Danish businesspeople
21st-century Danish businesspeople
20th-century Danish lawyers
21st-century Danish lawyers
Danish company founders
Businesspeople from Copenhagen
University of Copenhagen alumni