Petter Kilefors

Managing Partner

Head of Arthur D. Little Nordics

Areas of Focus

Education

Stockholm School of Economics

M.Sc., Economics and Business Administration

Rotterdam School of Management

M.Sc. International Business

Petter is the Managing Partner of Arthur D. Little in the Nordic region.

Petter is a member of the global Strategy & Organization Practice, globally responsible for Private Equity with industry affiliation to the TIME, Health Care & Life Sciences, and Public Services Practices.

His professional focus is on strategy & organization, advice to private equity and industrial investors pre- and post-transaction (e.g. due diligence, valuation, strategy, change management, post-merger integration), and governance issues faced by corporations, investors, governments and multilateral organizations.

Petter holds a Master’s in Economic Science and Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics and the Rotterdam School of Management.

Recent Publications

When global megatrends run amok

Petter Kilefors, Rebecka Axelsson Wadman, Bill Reeves, Alan Martinovich

Crises change our world. History tells a simple lesson — the deeper and more severe the crisis, the stronger the transformative effects on long-term societal development. Informative cases are abundant, ranging from the Black Death’s influence on reorganization of medieval agriculture to the ways the experiences of the combined tragedies of WWI and WWII transformed principles and mechanisms of managing the world economy. In retrospect, the long-term impact of these historical transformations has been associated with increasing growth and welfare.

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Growth in the new normal

Alan Martinovich, Petter Kilefors, Barnik Chitran Maitra, Hariprasad Pichai, Bill Reeves

As challenging as the current economic headwinds may be, many of these forces are likely short-term idiosyncrasies of the post-COVID-19 economic recovery. We believe that several longer-term and even accelerating economic mega-trends will undoubtedly have a profound impact on the global economy in the next five years and must be addressed with immediate and serious executive attention. In this Viewpoint, we cover four global growth mega-trends:

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BYE-BYE COMFORT ZONE, WELCOME VUCA

Petter Kilefors, Martin Glaumann, Alan Martinovich, Barnik Chitran Maitra, Hariprasad Pichai, Rebecka Axelsson Wadman, Alan Martinovich

NOW IS THE RIGHT TIME TO PUT GROWTH ON AGENDA As the global vaccination campaign continues, companies are preparing for the post-COVID-19 economic rebound to rebuild their financial strength and recover ground that they have lost during the COVID recession. Simultaneously, they must also respond to drivers and trends that the pandemic has either induced or significantly accelerated. They must balance the demand surge and digitalization tailwind against supply shortages.

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Travel & transportation

Electric buses

Petter Kilefors, Rodolfo Guzman, Dr. Ninghua Song

Electric buses are expected to be more efficient and greener than diesel buses, and key to making cities more environmentally friendly. Every city must carefully choose its individual solution for its bus fleet, and OEMs have to be ready to mirror the local requirements by understanding the needs of both PTOs and PTAs.

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Travel & transportation

Dematerialized ticketing

Mickael Tauvel, François-Joseph Van Audenhove, Vincent Bamberger, Petter Kilefors

Transport authorities and mass transit operators should consider dematerialization of ticketing for increased resilience and to pave the way for Mobility-as-a-Service in a post-Covid world

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Petter is the Managing Partner of Arthur D. Little in the Nordic region.

Petter holds a Master’s in Economic Science and Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics and the Rotterdam School of Management.