New members appointed to Board of SWECO

Gunnel Duveblad and Øystein Løseth were elected as new Board members at the Annual General Meeting of SWECO on 10 April 2008.

Gunnel Duveblad was born in 1955. Between 2002 and 2006 Gunnel was Managing Director of EDS Nordeuropa and between 1977 and 2002 she worked for IBM, from 1990 onwards in various managerial positions. She is a board member of HiQ, IBS and Posten AB.

Øystein Løseth was born in 1958. He is currently Director of the Production & Trade Division and Head of operations, Belgium and Germany, at the Dutch energy company Nuon, and on 22 April 2008 will take over as CEO of Nuon. Øystein has previously held managerial positions in Statkraft and Statoil. He is a board member of Eidsiva Vannkraft AB and former board member of SWECO Grøner AS.

”We are very pleased that Gunnel Duveblad and Øystein Løseth have chosen to join SWECO’s Board of Directors. Their experience of the international consulting business and energy market will contribute to SWECO’s continued development,” says Olle Nordström, Chairman of SWECO.

Following the AGM, SWECO’s Board of Directors consists of seven regular members elected by the AGM and no deputies. Aside from the election of Gunnel Duveblad and Øystein Løseth, the AGM re-elected Eric Douglas, Birgit Erngren Wohlin, Aina Nilsson Ström, Mats Wäppling and Olle Nordström. Olle Nordström was appointed as Board Chairman.