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Yngve Slyngstad (born 3 November 1962) is the CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) which is the part of the Norwegian Central Bank that is responsible for managing The Government Pension Fund - Global.
Slyngstad has a law degree from the University of Oslo and a degree from the Norwegian School of Economics. He also holds an MA degree in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MA degree in Political Science from the University of Paris.
Slyngstad was listed 5th on aiCIO's 2012 list of the 100 most influential institutional investors worldwide.[citation needed] In July 2013, he was ranked 3rd on the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute's Public Investor 100.
The chief executive of Norway's sovereign wealth fund, by far the largest in the world, is also the most powerful global activist investor. Yngve Slyngstad has the great weight of $860 billion at his disposal and his oil fund owns about 1% of all listed global stocks. Wal-Mart, Grupo Carso, Boeing and Lockheed Martin, among others, are excluded from the fund's portfolio for violating "humanitarian principles"-- although the fund has retained holdings in Russian banks and oil companies like Gazprom despite Western sanctions.
Slyngstad has a law degree from the University of Oslo and a degree from the Norwegian School of Economics. He also holds an MA degree in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MA degree in Political Science from the University of Paris.
Slyngstad was listed 5th on aiCIO's 2012 list of the 100 most influential institutional investors worldwide.[citation needed] In July 2013, he was ranked 3rd on the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute's Public Investor 100.
The chief executive of Norway's sovereign wealth fund, by far the largest in the world, is also the most powerful global activist investor. Yngve Slyngstad has the great weight of $860 billion at his disposal and his oil fund owns about 1% of all listed global stocks. Wal-Mart, Grupo Carso, Boeing and Lockheed Martin, among others, are excluded from the fund's portfolio for violating "humanitarian principles"-- although the fund has retained holdings in Russian banks and oil companies like Gazprom despite Western sanctions.
