Christian Guttmann

Chairman and Executive Founding Director, Nordic Artificial Intelligence Institute
Senior Adjunct, Karolinska Institute

With over 25 years of experience in Artificial Intelligence, Agentic AI, Multi Agent Systems, Machine Learning, and Quantum Computing, Dr. Christian Guttmann has held leadership roles across industry and academia. Recognized as one of the Top 100 Global AI Leaders, what drives Christian: closing the gap between what AI can do and what organizations are actually capturing from it. Strategy, technology, and execution - together.

Selected Experience

• 2025 – present Managing Director and Head of AI Tech, EQT Group, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2022 – 2025 Vice President, Engineering and AI, Pegasystems, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2018 – 2022 Vice President, Global Head of AI & Chief AI and Data Officer, TietoEVRY, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2016 – 2018 CEO/Founder, HealthiHabits (Artificial Intelligence), Stockholm, Sweden
• 2014 – 2016 Senior Analyst and Project Lead in Health Care AI and Analytics, IVBAR, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2012 – 2014 Area Lead in Health Care AI, Services, and Operations, IBM Research, Australia
• 2010 – 2012 Senior Researcher & Theme Leader of iCare, Etisalat British Telecom Innovation Centre, UAE

Extraordinary professional appointments

• 2014 – Present Adjunct Senior Researcher, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2016 – Present Chairman and Executive Founding Director, Nordic Artificial Intelligence Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
  Nordic AI Institute
• 2018 – Present Vice President, Swedish AI Society, Sweden
• 2022 – Present Advisory Board, KI Park, Germany
• 2014 – 2020 Professor (Adj. Associate), University of New South Wales, Australi

Education

• 2003 – 2008 PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Agents, Monash University, Australia
• 1998 – 2001 Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
• 1996 – 2001 Diplom Informatiker (Master's degree) in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, University of Paderborn, Germany
• 1998 – 2001 Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, Stockholm University, Sweden

Dr. Guttmann regularly shares his insights on AI, Multi-Agent Systems, Generative AI, and Agent advancements. Connect with him on LinkedIn or Twitter.

Relevant Links

• Nordic AI Institute
• Top 100 Global AI Leaders
• LinkedIn
• Twitter

My research is on Artificial Intelligence, Generative Artificial Intelligence and Agents in Health Care, Medicine, Pharmaceuticals and Medtech.

This is a scientific workshop series we have started in 2008 on AI in healthcare. https://www.care-workshops.org/ ;

Supervision to doctoral degree

• Muhammad Rafiq, Eliminating guesswork : an exploration of the role of predictive modelling in care management for patients with multimorbidities, https://openarchive.ki.se/articles/thesis/Eliminating_guesswork_an_exploration_of_the_role_of_predictive_modelling_in_care_management_for_patients_with_multimorbidities/26922592?file=48968074, 2022