The members of the Board are active members in the Swedish -Colombian Chamber of Commerce. They are business people, who have shown interest in collaborating and increasing the trade between Colombia and Sweden without any remuneration.
The Board consists nowadays of 5 members and they are elected by the members of the Chamber at the Annual General Assembly for a period of two years, re-election being permitted.
From 26th of May 2011, the new Board of Directors (2011-2013) are as follows:
Jonas Löttiger
Chairman
Mr. Löttiger is a Partner at Eversheds Södermark Law Firm in Stockholm. His main areas of practice include Swedish and international litigation and arbitration and international commercial law. Mr. Löttiger is member of the Swedish Bar Association since 2002 and member of the board of SCCC since 2010.
Erik Belfrage
Mr. Belfrage is Senior Vice President of SEB and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken. He is Advisor to the Chairman of SEB and to the Chairman of Investor AB and Mr. Belfrage is Chairman of the Board of both the International Council of Swedish Industry and Sigtunaskolan Humanistiska Läroverket (Sigtuna School), among others. Mr. Belfrage is member of the SCCC since 2008.
Lars-Erik Alm
Mr. Alm is former President of Skanska International. Previous experiences are also Project Director for a major hydropower project in Colombia and responsability for all business activities in Latinamerica. Member in SCCC since 2008.
José Namén
Mr. Namén is an Online Marketing Professional, working at MatHem since 2011. Mr. Namén is also co-founder of the Swedish-Colombian Non-Profit Foundation AMIGOS. Member of the CCCS since 2010.
Anders Larsson
Mr. Larsson is an eExperienced business development and IT professional. CEO at Ideact and Partner at Nativa Technologies. Mr. Larsson is one of the founders of the Chamber back in 2006.
Honorary Members are:
H.E Ms. Victoriana Mejía Marulanda, Ambassador of Colombia to Sweden
Ms. Mejía-Marulanda is currently Ambassador designate to Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Iceland. Ms. Mejía-Marulanda was Ambassador to Germany from 2003-2011. She previously served at the Colombian Embassy in Brussels as Consul General for four years, and First Secretary in charge of Consular Affairs also in Brussels. She also worked for the Colombian Coffee Federation in Brussels, and was the Director for Latin America of IWTC for ten years. IWTC is an international NGO based in New York working with women in development, with consultative status to the UN. Ms. Mejía-Marulanda was a professor of literature at the Instituto Caro y Cuervo, in Bogotá, and was the Director of the Liberal Arts Department of Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira. She also taught at the Universidad Externado de Colombia. She earned a B.A. in economics, an M.A. in history, and a Ph.D. (ADB) in comparative literature from Michigan State University.
Alfred Svenson
Mr. Svenson is Engineer in Telecommunications and has worked many years for LM Ericsson in several leading positions in Latin America. Mr. Svenson has been bestowed with “Órden al Gran Mérito”, from Colombia. He is one of the co-founders of the SCCC.
Jan Öhrvall
Mr. Örhvall is Consultant on biofuels production for private companies and governmental institutions in Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean. Exclusive Representative for Latin America of Chematur Engineering of Sweden, leaders in clean and efficient technology for ethanol production. Representing Ageratec of Sweden on biodiesel production technology. Also, through the companies in Colombia and Spain representing a number of European and U.S. technology providers in different sectors.
Tatiana Caldas-Löttiger
Mrs. Caldas-Löttiger is a Lawyer at Eversheds Södermark Law Firm in Stockholm. Before moving to Sweden she worked as a visiting attorney in a large law firm in Chicago, and was a legal adviser for the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is a co-founder and former Vice President of the SCCC. Ms. Caldas-Löttiger was responsible for the setting-up of the SCCC back in 2006.
