Mats Galvenius new Head of Market Operations Department

The Executive Board of the Riksbank today decided to appoint Mats Galvenius the new Head of the Market Operations Department. He succeeds Christina Lindenius, who is leaving the bank to become Director General and Head of the Financial Markets and Institutions Department at the Ministry of Finance.

Mats Galvenius has been deputy head of the Market Operations Department since 2001. Prior to that he worked as adviser to ECB Executive Board member Sirkka Hämäläinen.

Mats Galvenius is an economist with an MBA from Stockholm School of Economics. He will take up the post as Head of the Market Operations Department on 5 August.

Further information can be obtained from:
Kristina Persson, Deputy Governor, tel. +46-8-787 07 11.