Lars Henrik Thunell (born August 1948) is a Swedish businessman. He was the Executive Vice President and CEO of

International Finance Corporation The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is an international financial institution that offers investment, advisory, and asset-management services to encourage private-sector development in less developed countries. The IFC is a member of t ...

, a member of the

World Bank Group The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries. It is the largest and best-known development bank in the world and an observer at the United Nations Development Grou ...

. Thunell was born in August 1948. He attended

Stockholm University Stockholm University ( sv, Stockholms universitet) is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, so ...

, where he majored in

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

and received a doctorate.List of content for the thesis, from statsvet.su.se
Thunell has held a number of leading positions in Swedish and international businesses, among them at

ABB ABB Ltd. is a Swedish- Swiss multinational corporation headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland. The company was formed in 1988 when Sweden's Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget (ASEA) and Switzerland's Brown, Boveri & Cie merged to create ...

in Zürich and

American Express American Express Company (Amex) is an American multinational corporation specialized in payment card services headquartered at 200 Vesey Street in the Battery Park City neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. The company was found ...

in New York. In the mid 1990s he was director of the Swedish insurance company Trygg-Hansa and retired as chief executive for the Swedish bank,

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (, abbreviated SEB, is a northern European financial services group headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. In Sweden and the Baltic countries, SEB has a full financial service offering. In Denmark, Finland, Norway, ...

References

;Bibliography * ''Political risks in international business : investment behavior of multinational corporations'', Praeger, New York (1977)

External links

International Finance Corporation presentation of Lars H. Thunell
{{DEFAULTSORT:Thunell, Lars H. 1948 births Living people Swedish bankers World Bank Group people