Christian Hyldahl

Managing Director, Head of Continental Europe at Blackrock

Speaker

Christian Hyldahl, Christian Hyldahl, Managing Director, is the Head of Continental Europe for BlackRock. He is a member of EMEA SteerCo and Global OpCo, and he chairs the Continental Europe ExCo. Before taking up this role in July 2021, he was Head of the Nordic region and Co-Head of Continental Europe.

Prior to joining BlackRock in October 2019, Mr. Hyldahl was CEO of Denmark's largest pension fund, ATP (USD 140bn AuM). ATP is recognised for its advanced approach to portfolio construction, factor risk management across the entire investment portfolio and as a thought leader within Stewardship and ESG.

Mr. Hyldahl joined ATP in January 2017 after 26 years at Nordea, where he had a variety of senior roles such as CEO of Nordea Asset Management, CIO of Nordea Asset Management and Co-Head of Nordea Markets. During his years with Nordea Asset Management (2011-2016) the AuM almost doubled and Nordea was recognized as one of the fastest growing active asset managers in Europe driven by strong external distribution and strong investment results.

Mr. Hyldahl has served on the Danish Committee for Corporate Governance and chaired the working group mandated by the Danish Government that developed the first Stewardship Code for Danish institutional investors. He graduated as a M.Sc. in Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and has a Graduate Diploma in Finance from Copenhagen Business School (CBS)