GC Influencers
Most Influential GCs - Global-wide
Kurt-Jörgen Olsson of Inter IKEA Centre Group A/S
As group general counsel of much-loved Swedish furniture and homeware retailer IKEA, Kurt-Jörgen Olsson confronts the legal challenges and issues raised by a business which counts over 400 stores across all six inhabited continents. He has extensive in-house experience, taking on legal counsel roles at Sweden’s National Board of Public Building and state-owned real estate business Vasakronan, before spending three years as general counsel of Car Park Group. He arrived at IKEA in 2002 as general counsel for its Centres division, before assuming IKEA’s top legal role in 2012. Alongside his role steering the business through multiple international regulatory systems during its explosive international growth, which in 2018 saw the business open 19 stores and enter the Indian and Latvian markets for the first time, he also heads the group’s governance function, including IKEA’s environmental sustainability efforts.