Mats Granryd

Mr. Granryd has been working for the GSMA since 2016. In his role, he has led the mobile industry in becoming the first sector to broadly commit to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2016. He is now spearheading initiatives to amplify and accelerate the mobile industry’s impact on all 17 of the SDGs, across both developed and developing markets. He serves on the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, chairs the Working Group on Digital Gender Divide, and is also a leader with The B Team, a not-for-profit initiative formed by a global group of business leaders to catalyse a better way of doing business, for the wellbeing of people and the planet. Prior to joining the GSMA in 2016, Mats was President and CEO of Tele2, one of Europe’s fastest-growing telecom operators with more than 16 million customers across nine countries. He has also held positions at Ericsson, Vodafone and Bharti.