Jerker Johansson
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Jerker Johansson is a Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 investment banker and was the Chief Executive Officer of UBS Investment Bank and member of the Group Executive Board at UBS AG
UBS AG
UBS AG is a Swiss global financial services company headquartered in Basel and Zürich, Switzerland, which provides investment banking, asset management, and wealth management services for private, corporate, and institutional clients worldwide, as well as retail clients in Switzerland...

 between February 13, 2008 and April 27, 2009.

Biography

Johansson received a Master's degree in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics
Stockholm School of Economics
The Stockholm School of Economics or Handelshögskolan i Stockholm is one of Northern Europe's leading business schools. Its Masters in Management program is ranked no. 2 in Northern Europe and no. 13 in Europe by the Financial Times...

 in 1979 and an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 1986. During this time, he was part of Bankers Trust
Bankers Trust
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's Graduate Training Program and worked for Chase Manhattan Bank
Chase Manhattan Bank
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.

He later went to work at Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000....

 Europe, and became a Vice Chairman and member of their Management Committee. Johansson joined Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000....

 as a Summer Associate in 1985.

From 2002 to 2005, Johansson was the head of the Institutional Equity Division of Morgan Stanley Europe. In August 2005, he was named Co-Head of Combined Sales and Trading, consisting of the Institutional Equity Division and the Fixed Income Division. From April 2007, he was co-head of sales and trading with responsibility for clients and services, prime brokerage and solely responsible for sales and trading in capital markets.

In February 2008, Johansson was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of UBS Investment Bank. He also serves as a member of the UBS AG
UBS AG
UBS AG is a Swiss global financial services company headquartered in Basel and Zürich, Switzerland, which provides investment banking, asset management, and wealth management services for private, corporate, and institutional clients worldwide, as well as retail clients in Switzerland...

 Group Executive Board.

On 27 April 2009, Johansson "resigned with immediate effect" and was replaced by Alex Wilmot-Sitwell and Carsten Kengeter as Co-CEOs of the Investment Bank.

Activities

Johansson is a member of the Stanford Business School Advisory Board, a Trustee of Tower Hamlets Educational Business Partnership and a Business Leader at Community Links, London.

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