Eddie Chen

Eddie Chen is the Managing Director and Head for China of Eurazeo S.A. (2013-Present), a French PE investment company with a 130 history with a market value of 5 billion Euro. Its portfolio consists of 29 French and other European companies. Prior to joining Eurazeo, Mr Chen was the Vice President and Chief China Representative of Invest Sweden (2002-2012), a recognised pioneer and expert in overseas investment in helping Chinese companies “going global”. In this capacity, he completed over 250 Chinese investments in Sweden in 10 years. The most influential example involved China Geely Auto acquiring Volvo Cars – known as the No 1 example of Chinese outbound investment. In 2007, he received the first Chinese Grand Award of “Sweden – The Most Attractive Investment Destination”. Mr Chen was also Chief of the Information Technology Group at UNDP (1984-2012), where he was responsible for all internal and external IT strategy and operations for the 6000 people in the UN organisation.