The Board of Directors is composed of twelve highly experienced individuals with backgrounds that reflect the global nature of the company.

Eleven members of the Board of Directors are independent directors under the applicable rules of the New York Stock Exchange, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Jan Carlson

Chairman

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Jan Carlson

Chairman

Born 1960. Chairman since May 2014 and Director since 2007. 
 
Former, President and CEO of Veoneer, Inc. Former President and CEO, Autoliv.

Member of the Board of Directors of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson. Member of the Board of Directors of Volvo AB.

M.Sc. in Physics and Electrical Engineering from University of Linköping in Sweden.

Mikael Bratt

Director, President and CEO of Autoliv Inc.

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Mikael Bratt

Director, President and CEO of Autoliv Inc.

Born 1967. Director since 2018.

President and CEO of Autoliv since June 2018. Former President of Autoliv Passive Safety from May 2016 through June 2018.

Member of the Board of Directors of Höganäs AB, a private Swedish corporation.

Studied Business Administration at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden

Laurie Brlas

Director

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Laurie Brlas

Director

Born 1957. Director since 2020.

Member of the Audit and Risk Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

Former Executive Vice President and CFO of Newmont Mining Corporation. Former Chief Financial Officer and former President, Global Operations of Cliff Natural Resources.

Board member of Albermarle Corporation, Graphic Packaging Corporation, and Constellation Energy Corporation.
B.S. in Business Administration from Youngstown State University.
 

Hasse Johansson

Director

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Hasse Johansson

Director

Born 1949. Director since 2018 and a member of the Audit and Risk Committee. 

Former EVP Research & Development at Scania. Managing Director of Johansson Teknik & Form.

Board member of DevPort AB and Swedish Electromagnet Investment AB. Mr. Johansson is a member of the Business Executives Council of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences

MSc in Electrical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Leif Johansson

Director

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Leif Johansson

Director

Born 1951. Director since 2016. Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and a member of the Leadership Development and Compensation Committee. 

Former President and CEO of The Volvo Group.

Board member of Ecolean AB (a private Swedish corporation), a board member of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science, a board member of the European Round Table of Industrialists, a delegate of the China Development Forum, and a member of the Board of the Boao Forum for Asia.

M.Sc. in Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Adriana Karaboutis

Director

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Adriana Karaboutis

Director

Born 1962. Director since 2024.

Former Chief Information and Digital Officer of National Grid. Former Executive Vice President, Technology, Business Solutions and Corporate Affairs of Biogen Inc. Former Vice President and Global Chief Information Officer of Dell, Inc.
Board member of Aon PLC, Perrigo Company PLC, and Savills PLC.

B.S. in Computer Science from Wayne State University.

 

Franz-Josef Kortüm

Director

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Franz-Josef Kortüm

Director

Born 1950. Director since 2014. Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

Former CEO of Webasto SE and Audi AG.

Chairman of the Advisory Board of Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Member of the Supervisory Board of Wacker Chemie. 

MBA-equivalent degree in Business Administration from the University of Regensburg in Germany.

Frédéric Lissalde

Director

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Frédéric Lissalde

Director

Born 1967. Director since 2020. Chair of the Leadership and Compensation Committee and a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. 

President and Chief Executive Officer of BorgWarner Inc since August 2018.

Member of the Board of Directors of BorgWarner, Inc. 

Masters of Engineering degree from ENSAM - Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers - Paris, and an MBA from HEC Paris.

Xiaozhi Liu

Director

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Xiaozhi Liu

Director

Born 1956. Director since 2011 and a member of the Leadership Development and Compensation Committee.

Former CEO and Vice Chairman of Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co Ltd. Former Chairman & CEO of General Motors Taiwan. Former CTO and Chief Engineer of GM China.

Member of the Board of Directors of Johnson Matthey PLC.

Ph.D. and master’s degree in Chemical Engineering and Electrical Engineering from FriedrichAlexander University in Erlangen-Nuremburg, Germany, and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Jiaotong University in Xian, China.

Gustav Lundgren

Director

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Gustav Lundgren

Director

Born 1981. Director since 2022 and a member of the Audit and Risk Committee.

Partner of Cevian Capital, an affiliate of Cevian Capital II GP Limited (“Cevian”).

Master of Science in Economics and Business Administration from Stockholm School of Economics in addition studies at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden.

Martin Lundstedt

Director

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Martin Lundstedt

Director

Born 1967. Director since 2021 and a member of the Leadership Development and Compensation Committee.   

President of AB Volvo, Chief Executive Officer of The Volvo Group, and a member of the Group Executive Board since October 2015. Former President and Chief Executive Officer of Scania.

Member of the Board of Directors of AB Volvo. Chairman of the Board of Directors of Permobil AB, a private Swedish company.  Chairman of the Commercial Vehicle Board of the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA),  a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), and a member of the European Round Table of Industry (ERT).

Mr. Lundstedt holds a Master of Science degree from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Thaddeus “Ted” Senko

Director

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Thaddeus “Ted” Senko

Director

Born 1956. Director since 2018 and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee.

Former partner at KPMG LLP specializing in enterprise risk management, compliance, and audit services to public companies.

Member of the Board of Directors of Lightning eMotors Inc. Member of the Board of Directors of USA Rare Earth, LLC, a private company.

BSc in Business Administration from Duquesne University, U.S.

Contact the Board

 

Any shareholder or other interested party who wishes to communicate with the Board, the independent directors, or the non-executive directors regarding the company can do so by writing to such person(s) at the following address:

Board/Independent Directors/Non-Executive Directors
c/o Vice President Legal Affairs
Autoliv, Inc., Box 70381
SE-107 24 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 8 587 20600
Fax: +46 8 587 20633
E-mail: [email protected]

Communications with the Board, the independent directors or the non-executive directors may be sent anonymously and are not screened. Such communications will be distributed to the specific director(s) requested by the shareholder or interested party or to a session of independent directors or non-executive directors as a group, after it has been determined that the content represents a message to the intended recipient(s).