Year of first appointment and year in which current mandate will expire: 2023 - 2027

Biography

An American-Swedish national, Ulrika Ekman holds a J.D. from the New York University School of Law, an M.A. in History from New York University and a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. She was a partner in the US and international law firm Davis Polk LLP, where she represented clients in complex domestic and cross-border transactions across a wide range of sectors, including mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, disposals and reorganisations (1990-2004). Ulrika Ekman was a member of the Management Committee of Greenhill & Co, a leading independent investment bank that provides financial advisory services for mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, financing and fundraising to companies, institutions and governments from its multiple offices across five continents (2004-2012). She is currently an independent member of the Board of Directors of Greenhill & Co., where she chairs the Nomination and Governance Committee and sits on the Compensation Committee.

Other mandates held in foreign unlisted companies
Manager: Riga Properties LLC (United-States) (since 2019).

Other offices and positions held in other companies in the past five years
Director: Greenhill & Co. (United states) (from 2021 to December 2023).