[VOID] Biography | Ola Källenius — The School Across the Road on Sveavägen

When Ola Källenius was sixteen the family moved to Stockholm and lived across the road from the Stockholm School of Economics.

He finished school at Danderyds gymnasium, north of the city, then did fifteen months of military service in 1988 and 1989 at the Swedish Armed Forces Interpreter School.

From 1989 to 1993 he took a master's in finance and accounting here, at Sveavägen 65, and a CEMS master's in international management with a term at the University of St. Gallen.

The building is still the school's main house. The accessible entrance now sits on Bertil Ohlins Gata, on the back side of the block.

He had first planned to follow an older brother to KTH. The switch to this campus put a future car-company chief through a finance degree rather than an engineering one — a fact Mercedes-Benz still notes in its official biography.

In 1993 he left Sveavägen for Daimler-Benz's International Management Associate Programme in Stuttgart.

Photo: Ola Källenius, Matti Blume, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.