Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group

Date: July 2020

Urban Funered

Urban Funered is the CEO of the Swedish Securities Markets Association (SSMA), an associa- tion founded in 1908 and representing 23 , investment banks and brokers active in Swe- dish securities markets. He is also a Board Member inter alia of SwedSec Licensiering (respon- sible for the licensing of financial advisors in ), the Swedish House of Finance (the Swe- dish national research center in financial economics) and the International Council of Securities Associations (ICSA), as well as a Member of the ESMA Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (SMSG).

Urban Funered has during his career held positions as Director of Public Policy with Fidelity International in London and Vienna (2014–2019), Diplomatic Minister and Attaché at the Swedish Permanent Representation to the European Union (2010–2014), State Secretary, Senior Adviser and Special Adviser at the Swedish Ministry of Finance (2007–2010), Group Compliance Officer of Carnegie Investment (2005–2007), Legal Counsel in the Unit of Carnegie Investment Bank (1999-2005), Legal Counsel (Advokat) with the Law Firms Vinge in and Skadden Arps Meagher & Flom in New York (1993- 1999), Researcher and Lecturer in Banking and Civil Law at Lund University (1990-1993) and Judge Clerk in the Swedish Civil and Administrative Courts (1988-1990).

Urban Funered holds LL.M. and Post-Graduate Degrees in Civil, Banking and Financial law from Lund University and Queen Mary & Westfield College of London University, and a BSc in Busi- ness Administration and Economics from the School of Economics and Management at Lund University.

Urban Funered is married, has three teenage sons and lives in Stockholm, Sweden.

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