The Swedish government has revamped the board of the Swedish Pensions Agency (Pensionsmyndigheten), adding new skills and experience, saying it was also tasking the authority with strengthening its controls, and capacity for exchanging information with other agencies to better detect benefit violations.
Anna Tenje, minister for social security and pensions, said: “The pensions authority will have a new board, whose collective experience and deep knowledge about, inter alia, state administration, IT, capital management, safety issues and research in aging, are needed for the authority’s tasks and operations.”
She said the agency had many important tasks, including giving pension savers and pensioners greater opportunities to understand and plan their pension based on their individual situations and desires.
“The government has also tasked the authority with strengthening the work around controls, and increased its ability to share information with relevant authorities in order to prevent and detect benefit violations,” Tenje said in last week’s statement.
Anders Perklev, who was appointed to the role in July, remains as chair of the board, according to the announcement.
The five new board members appointed by the government are Carl-Magnus Fahlcrantz, Eva Gottfridsdotter-Nilsson, Elisabeth Hopkins, Therese Mattsson and Ingmar Skoog.
They will replace Wendla Thorstensson, Sven-Erik Bucht, Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde, and Tom Madell.
The agency’s director general, Anna Pettersson Westerberg, will also be part of the board, as before.
According to its instructions, the pensions agency has to have a board consisting of a maximum of nine members, including the director general. The new board announced today will consist of a total of seven members, including Pettersson Westerberg.
Including two employee representatives who are not appointed by the government, the board now has seven members in total, down from the tally of eight before.
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