Jan Erik Back New Chief Financial Officer of SEB

Jan Erik Back has been appointed new Chief Financial Officer and
Executive Vice President of SEB. He will also become a member of the
Group Executive Committee (GEC).

Jan Erik Back, 46, is currently First Senior Executive Vice President
of Vattenfall, and as Chief Financial Officer, he is Head of Group
Finance. He has previously been, among other things, Chief Financial
Officer of Skandia.

Annika Falkengren, CEO and President of SEB:

- We are pleased to welcome Jan Erik to SEB. He has a solid track
record as Chief Financial Officer and long experience from the
financial industry. It gives him a natural and important position in
our team at SEB.
Jan Erik Back will take up his new position at SEB after the summer,
succeeding Per-Arne Blomquist, who, as informed earlier, is leaving
SEB for the position as Chief Financial Officer of Telia Sonera.







SEB is a North European financial group serving some 400,000
corporate customers and institutions and five million private
individuals. SEB offers universal banking services in Sweden, Germany
and the Baltic countries - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. It also has
local presence in the other Nordic countries, Poland, Ukraine and
Russia and a global presence through its international network in
another ten countries. On 31 March 2008, the Group's total assets
amounted to SEK 2,399bn (EUR 251bn) while its assets under management
totalled SEK 1,331bn (EUR 149bn). The Group has about 20,000
employees. Read more about SEB at www.sebgroup.com.
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Odd Eiken, Head of Group Marketing and Communications, [phone]
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Katja Margell, Head of External Communications, [phone]