Bjarne Graven Larsen
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Qblue Balanced
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Qblue Balanced
Bjarne Graven Larsen is a Pension Fund and Financial Sector veteran, with more than 35 years of experience in the industry. He is the former Chief Investment Officer and Executive Board Member of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP), one of the world’s largest and most sophisticated pension plans headquartered in Toronto, Canada. He previously held positions at Realkredit Denmark, the country's largest Mortgage Bank, in Denmark's Central Bank and in the Ministry of Finance, was the Chief Executive Officer of FIH Erhvervsbank A/S (FIH), the Chair of the Investment Committee at Europe’s leading renewable infrastructure fund, CIP and held the position as Chief Financial Officer at Novo A/S. From 1999 to 2011, he was the Chief Investment Officer and Executive Board Member of ATP, Denmark’s largest and Europe’s fourth largest pension fund, and a global pioneer in developing the Total Portfolio Approach and sustainability integration. After returning from Toronto in 2018, he founded the Copenhagen based asset management company, Qblue Balanced.
