Sven Peterson is Vice President of Compliance, Ethics and Regulatory Services at Premera, and serves as Premera’s Compliance & Ethics Officer. In this role, Sven leads the strategic planning, directs activities and ensures overall effectiveness of the Compliance & Ethics Program, the Medicare Advantage Compliance Program, and Regulatory Services. Sven is responsible for the formulation and execution of Premera’s relationship and reputation management strategy with regulators, and for providing advice regarding regulatory issues affecting the company's strategic direction. As part of his duties as Compliance & Ethics Officer, Sven chairs Premera’s Compliance and Ethics Committee, and is co-chair and co-founder of its Data and Artificial Intelligence Ethics Committee.

In addition to his work at Premera, Sven teaches Ethical Leadership in the evening MBA program at the University of Washington Foster School of Business. Prior to joining Premera in 2012, Sven was an attorney focusing on health care law with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services in the Washington, D.C. and in private practice at Foster Pepper in Seattle. Sven received his J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar. Before attending law school, Sven earned a Ph.D. in philosophy, focused on ethics, from Georgetown University. Sven graduated magna cum laude from Seattle University, where he was a member of the Alpha Sigma Nu honor society and Psi Chi.