European Banker of Year Shows Why She’s Lonely at Top

Annika Falkengren, who heads SEB AB and is the only woman chief executive officer among Sweden’s biggest companies, says one of the world’s most gender-equal nations isn’t doing enough for women in the corporate world.

“It’s important not to glorify Sweden,” Falkengren, 51, said in an interview in the 157-year-old bank’s headquarters overlooking the 18th century cinnamon-brown Royal Palace of Stockholm. “We have so few women at the very top.”