Dr Frederik Paulsen is a renowned businessman, academic, philanthropist and explorer. Billionaire and among the richest persons in Sweden/Europe. Dr Paulsen’s father and stepmother founded Ferring Pharmaceuticals in 1950, and during his period as Chairman, the company delivered impressive growth and expanded into new markets, gaining a presence in almost 60 countries. Currently Dr Paulsen is member of the board of Ferring Foundation. In addition to Ferring his other business interests are in the fields of life sciences, real estate, publishing, and the beverages industry. He also devotes time to his passions: polar exploration and climate change science. As one of the few people to have stood on all eight of the Earth’s poles, Dr Paulsen has a deep historical and scientific interest in polar exploration and is a founding member of the Swiss Polar Institute. Dr Paulsen supports a diverse range of philanthropic activities in culture, science, and education, ranging from Europe and the US to the remote island of South Georgia and the Kingdom of Bhutan. He is the recipient of numerous awards and national and international honours, including Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE), Bundesverdienstkreuz in Germany and Officier de la Légion d’Honneur in France. Most recently, he was awarded Officer of the Ordre de Grimaldi by Albert II, Prince of Monaco. Frederik Paulsen was born in 1950 in Sweden and remains a Swedish national though now lives in Lausanne, Switzerland. He studied chemistry at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany, and Business Administration at Lund University, Sweden, and holds a Ph.D from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.