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. From 1990 to 2004, 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 restructurings. From 2004 to 2012, she was a member of the Executive Committee of Greenhill & Co, a leading independent investment bank that provides financial advisory services for mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, financing and capital raising to corporations, institutions and governments from its multiple offices across five continents. From 2021 to 2023, she was an independent member of the Board of Directors of Greenhill & Co., where she chaired the Nomination and Governance Committee and served 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 2023).