Urban Partners appoints Jim Hagemann Snabe to Board of Directors as Vice Chairperson

Jim Hagemann Snabe has joined the Board of Urban Partners as Vice Chairperson. He also becomes a co-owner of the company.

“It is a significant boost for Urban Partners that Jim Hagemann Snabe has agreed to join the Board and become an investor. We are looking forward to this collaboration, as it allows us to benefit from Jim's extensive management experience and business understanding. His involvement will further support our ambition of becoming a world-leading investor in more sustainable cities,” says Mikkel Bülow-Lehnsby, Chairperson, Urban Partners.

Jim Hagemann Snabe has made the decision that he will dedicate his leadership to accelerating sustainable development within industries that are crucial for our future.

"Urban Partners is one of the leading companies that has seen both the necessity and the potential of future urban development being one of the keys to the success of the sustainable transition. I see it as both an obligation and an honor to be involved," says Jim Hagemann Snabe, adding:

"We aim to rethink cities to create sustainable and humane forms of living based on circular value chains. We need cities to embrace the sustainable agenda in entirely new ways.”

Jim Snabe Hagemann is formerly Chairperson at A.P. Møller - Mærsk and currently Chairperson of the German industrial conglomerate Siemens and of the Swedish green battery giant Northvolt.

Urban Partners recently launched its new vision and brand, which is driven by the ambition to become a world-leading investor in the promotion of more sustainable cities.