Women in finance – Karolina Qvarnström

Karolina Qvarnström has over a decade long career behind her at the Swedish insurance group Länsförsäkringar where she currently works at the company’s fund arm Länsförsäkringar Fondförvaltning with product development and manager selection. Before her post at Länsförsäkringar, she worked at the Ministry of Enterprises as a financial analyst and with corporate governance as well as at PwC as a financial analyst and M&A consultant.

Karolina is also the deputy chairwoman of the board and one of the driving forces behind Kvinnokapital, the Swedish networking group for women working in the financial industry.   WHAT DID YOU DREAM OF BECOMING AS A CHILD? I dreamt of becoming an architect. But as I grew older there were so many other interesting things to do. I still, though, love to study buildings and houses, to walk by them, to walk through them, to look for flaws that can be improved, and to imagine the interior decorations and changes that could be made to improve the design. HOW