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Nils Flaatten is the chief executive of the Western Cape Investment and Trade Promotion Agency.
Nils Flaatten completed his high schooling at Paul Roos Gymnasium, in Stellenbosch. He then spent a year as a Rotary Exchange Student in Spooner Wisconsin (USA) where he attended Spooner High School. He served in the South African Navy as a Combat Officer and during his sea time visited Marion Island and the Antarctic. He obtained a Bachelors of Art degree from the Stellenbosch University.
After university he worked in London for Dresdner RCM Global Investors and then Barclays Global Investors in Jersey (Channel Islands).
Nils then moved to Hong Kong where he worked for Citigroup as the Asia-Pacific Regional Marketing Manager in the bank’s Global Corporate and Investment Bank division. While in Hong Kong he also served as the Chairperson of the South African Business Forum.
He then returned to London where he worked for the Capital Markets Company (Capco) as a management consultant. Here his assignments included work on European stock exchanges, the acquisition of an outsourced trade service company, financial services outsourcing and capital market process management.
He returned to South Africa where he served as advisor to the provincial Minister for Development, Economics and Planning and Managing Director of the African Carbon Trust. He is currently the CEO for Wesgro - the Western Cape Government’s investment and trade promotion agency.
Nils has also guest lectures at the Stellenbosch University Graduate School of Business, teaching on Doing Business in China and China Market Access. He sits on the board of an NGO called Young in Prison and his interests include wine, rugby, golf, dinghy and offshore sailing.
Nils Flaatten completed his high schooling at Paul Roos Gymnasium, in Stellenbosch. He then spent a year as a Rotary Exchange Student in Spooner Wisconsin (USA) where he attended Spooner High School. He served in the South African Navy as a Combat Officer and during his sea time visited Marion Island and the Antarctic. He obtained a Bachelors of Art degree from the Stellenbosch University.
After university he worked in London for Dresdner RCM Global Investors and then Barclays Global Investors in Jersey (Channel Islands).
Nils then moved to Hong Kong where he worked for Citigroup as the Asia-Pacific Regional Marketing Manager in the bank’s Global Corporate and Investment Bank division. While in Hong Kong he also served as the Chairperson of the South African Business Forum.
He then returned to London where he worked for the Capital Markets Company (Capco) as a management consultant. Here his assignments included work on European stock exchanges, the acquisition of an outsourced trade service company, financial services outsourcing and capital market process management.
He returned to South Africa where he served as advisor to the provincial Minister for Development, Economics and Planning and Managing Director of the African Carbon Trust. He is currently the CEO for Wesgro - the Western Cape Government’s investment and trade promotion agency.
Nils has also guest lectures at the Stellenbosch University Graduate School of Business, teaching on Doing Business in China and China Market Access. He sits on the board of an NGO called Young in Prison and his interests include wine, rugby, golf, dinghy and offshore sailing.