Håkan Samuelsson is a Swedish businessman who served as Chairman of the Executive Board (CEO) of MAN SE between January 2005 and November 2009.

Education

Samuelsson began studying at the Royal Institute of Technology

Royal Institute of Technology

The Royal Institute of Technology is a university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH was founded in 1827 as Sweden's first polytechnic and is one of Scandinavia's largest institutions of higher education in technology. KTH accounts for one-third of Sweden’s technical research and engineering education...

 in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

 in 1972, obtaining a degree in mechanical engineering (M.Sc.M.E.).

Career

In 1977 Samuelsson joined Scania AB, Södertälje, Sweden, in the field of braking systems design. He subsequently held various technical management positions, becoming director of Powertrain in 1988. In 1993 he took over as Technical Director of Scania Latin America and in 1996 was appointed to the Executive Board of Scania AB, with responsibility for development and production.

In July 2000 he was appointed Chairman of the Executive Board of MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG and also a member of the Executive Board of MAN Aktiengesellschaft, both Munich.

Samuelsson was appointed Chairman of the Executive Board of MAN in January 2005, a position he held until resigning on 24 November 2009.