Marie Ehrling is a Swedish executive (born 5 May 1955). She received an undergraduate degree at the

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at the age of 21. She was listed #85 in ''

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'' magazine's List of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women in 2006. Formerly deputy chief executive of

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, the Danish-Norwegian-Swedish airline group, 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

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. 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. She is also a board member of Securitas AB,Securitas: Marie Ehrling
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, Loomis AB, Schibsted ASA, Safegate AB, the Centre for Advanced Studies in Leadership at the

, Disruptive Pharma and the

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. She is married to Lars Mydland with one son, Jacob Westerberg, from a previous marriage with the former politician Bengt Westerberg.

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