New members appointed to Board of SWECO

New members appointed to Board of SWECO 

Gunnel Duveblad and Øystein Løseth were elected as new Board members at the
Annual General Meeting of SWECO on 10 April 2008. 
Gunnel Duveblad was born in 1955. Between 2002 and 2006 Gunnel was Managing
Director of EDS Nordeuropa and between 1977 and 2002 she worked for IBM, from
1990 onwards in various managerial positions. She is a board member of HiQ, IBS
and Posten AB. 


Øystein Løseth was born in 1958. He is currently Director of the Production &
Trade Division and Head of operations, Belgium and Germany, at the Dutch energy
company Nuon, and on 22 April 2008 will take over as CEO of Nuon. Øystein has
previously held managerial positions in Statkraft and Statoil. He is a board
member of Eidsiva Vannkraft AB and former board member of SWECO Grøner AS. 

”We are very pleased that Gunnel Duveblad and Øystein Løseth have chosen to join
SWECO's Board of Directors. Their experience of the international consulting
business and energy market will contribute to SWECO's continued development,”
says Olle Nordström, Chairman of SWECO.

Following the AGM, SWECO's Board of Directors consists of seven regular members
elected by the AGM and no deputies. Aside from the election of Gunnel Duveblad
and Øystein Løseth, the AGM re-elected Eric Douglas, Birgit Erngren Wohlin, Aina
Nilsson Ström, Mats Wäppling and Olle Nordström. Olle Nordström was appointed as
Board Chairman. 


For further information please contact:
Olle Nordström, Chairman of SWECO, +46 8-463 37 63

SWECO is the Nordic region's leading provider of consulting services with
combined expertise in engineering, environmental technology and architecture.
SWECO has around 5,300 employees in ten countries and recorded annual sales of
around SEK 4.6 billion in 2007. The company has projects currently underway in
some 80 countries worldwide. The SWECO share is quoted on the Stockholm Stock
Exchange. SWECO is a member of OMX Nordic Exchange in Stockholm.

The information contained herein may be subject to the disclosure requirements
in the Swedish Securities Exchange and Clearing Operations Act and/or the
Financial Instruments Trading Act.