Marie Ehrling

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(Swedish Executive, Born May 5, 1955, #85 in Forbes' 2006 List of 100 Most Powerful Women)

Formerly deputy chief executive of SAS, Sweden's national airline, which she left in 2002, after 20 years, when she was passed over for the top spot.

She went on to head TeliaSonera Sweden, the $4.8 billion Swedish subsidiary of telecommunications giant TeliaSonera. Under her leadership, TeliaSonera has acquired foreign companies and offered cutting-edge technology, and is also noted for dealing with stiff competition via layoffs. Ehrling has become a vocal advocate for deregulation of the Swedish telecom industry.

The post for the CEO of SAS will be vacant soon, and the Swedish business press has speculated that Ehrling is again a top candidate for the job.

She is also a board member of Securitas AB, the Centre for Advanced Studies in Leadership at the Stockholm School of Economics, and the World Childhood Foundation.

She is married with one son.