Frederik Paulsen Jr


Prof Dr Frederik Paulsen OBE is a Swedish billionaire businessman, explorer, philanthropist and non-executive chairman of Ferring Pharmaceuticals.

Biography

Early life

Frederik Dag Arfst Paulsen was born on 30 October 1950 in Stockholm, Sweden, as a Swedish citizen. His father was Frederik Paulsen Sr, the founder of Ferring Pharmaceuticals. Frederik Paulsen grew up in Sweden, with his father and his father's second wife, Eva Wolf Frandsen – one of the founding researchers at Ferring. He attended school in Sweden and then went on to study chemistry at the Christian Albrecht University in Kiel, and business administration at Lund University in Sweden. He received his doctoral degree in Demography from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France.

Career

Since 2003, Frederik Paulsen has been based in Switzerland, where Ferring subsquently established its global headquarters in Saint-Prex. His business interests focus mainly on the Ferring Pharmaceuticals Group where he has worked since 1976 in senior executive positions.
During this period, the company founded by his father in Malmö, Sweden expanded to become an international operation. Today, Ferring has operations in over 50 countries and sells its products in more than 110 countries around the globe. Ferring specialized from the outset in peptide drugs and has continued its commitment to their development.
Frederik Paulsen's business activities extend into other pharmaceutical and life science areas, wines and spirits, and publishing. Frederik Paulsen's other business interests include:
In addition, he has interests in real estate and viticulture. Frederik Paulsen also holds several board memberships.
Since 2009, Frederik Paulsen also has held the position of Honorary Consul of the Russian Federation, in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was appointed Honorary Consul General in 2015. In 2020, he was appointed a Knight of the Order of St. John by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth of England.

Personal Life

Exploration

Frederik Paulsen is also an avid explorer. In 2007, alongside Russian Veteran explorer Artur Chilingarov and Australian researcher Mike McDowell, he descended more than 14,000 feet in a Russian MIR submersible to take samples of soil and fauna at the bottom of the Arctic ocean at the North Pole. In 2010, Paulsen, alongside his travelling companion François Bernard, completed the first crossing of the Bering Strait from America to Russia in an ultralight aircraft.
In the winter of 2013, he became the first man to explore all eight of the Earth’s poles.

Philanthropy

As Chairman of Ferring, Frederik Paulsen is a founding sponsor of The Peptide Therapeutics Foundation. He has contributed to the opening of several fertility clinics throughout Russia to help solve its demographics problem. He has donated approximately $40 million to the Museum Kunst der Westküste. He has also substantially contributed to the Salk Institute in San Diego, California, Bhutan's Royal Textile Academy and the South Georgia Heritage Trust in Scotland.

Honours and awards

Paulsen is the recipient of numerous national honours and holds many and varied positions. Some of these are listed here:

Honours

Paulsen holds the following member and directorships among others: