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=  Mats Andersson (Financier)  = Mats Andersson is the former Chief Executive Officer at the Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund. He has worked in many senior management positions in the Swedish capital market including as Head of Swedish Operations at the investment banks Warburg and Deutsche Bank, as well as Head of Asset Management at Skandia Liv.

As CEO of the Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund, Andersson was actively involved in global environmental issues, most recently in collaboration with the UN to increase awareness of climate change risk in finance and investments.

During his career, Mats Andersson has been awarded the 2016 Chief Investment Officer’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and was ranked 5th on the Financial News 100 Most Influential List in the category ‘Pensions and Investments’ (2015) and 4th on Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute’s ‘Public Investor 100’ list.

Andersson studied at the Stockholm University where he received a Bachelor of Science in Business and Economics. He remains active on both sustainability-focused investment, and speaks regularly at venues and conferences on the topic. For example, Andersson spoke for ministers and senior representatives of non-state actors at the Lima Climate Action High Level meeting in December 2014.

Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition
The Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition (PDC) is a multi-stakeholder initiative to reduce greenhouse gases emissions on the ground by mobilizing a critical mass of institutional investors committed to gradually decarbonizing their portfolios.

As CEO of the Fourth National Swedish Pension Fund (AP4), Mats Andersson was a driving force behind the PDC initiative, including directing AP4 to co-fund it in partnership with the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative and other stakeholders. As part of the PDC initiative, Andersson led the re-balance of US stocks in AP4’s portfolios, dumping and lowering exposure to companies with high carbon footprints. In October 2013, Andersson also engineered an emerging market equity strategy that targeted companies with lower carbon emissions.

AP4’s work under Andersson’s leadership was also acknowledged by renowned economist Nicholas Stern. Speaking at a Bank of England conference, Stern described AP4’s approach as “a much more intelligent way of motivating behaviour than divesting out of oil, which is like a blunderbuss”.

Global Challenges Foundation
Since 2015, Mats Andersson has been the Vice Chairman of the Global Challenges Foundation. In this role, Mats has spoken extensively on the need for better global governance to address global catastrophic risk.