Biography
Bjorn Forfang, CFA, was deputy CEO, CFA Institute, where he oversees the Member Value, Advocacy, Services Delivery, Research, and Relationship Management functions, as well as our regional capabilities in APAC, EMEA and the Americas. Forfang has more than 20 years of client and relationship management experience, including 14 years as managing director at UBS Investment Bank where he held global relationship management roles in New York and London, and managed and worked with some of the financial industry’s largest institutional clients. Prior to UBS, he held senior-level roles at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, and Greenwich Associates. Forfang started his financial career in fixed income sales at J.P. Morgan Securities, Inc. Early in his career, he was a senior legal officer with the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Oslo and later relocated to New York as Deputy Trade Commissioner of Norway to the United States and Vice Consul to New York. Forfang holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a JD from the University of Oslo. He is a Norwegian citizen and a permanent US resident.