Klas Eklund was born on 16 July 1952 and is a Swedish economist and author.
18 Facts About Klas Eklund
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Klas Eklund went to high school in Stockholm, but spent his senior year at Wausau Senior High in Wisconsin, USA.
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Klas Eklund completed a BA degree in economics from the Stockholm School of Economics, where he later completed a Licentiate degree.
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Klas Eklund has a degree in economic history and Russian from the Stockholm University.
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Since January 2018, Klas Eklund is the Senior Economist of the law firm Mannheimer Swartling.
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From 1982 until 1990, Klas Eklund was employed in the Swedish Ministry of Finance, where he finally held the position of deputy under-secretary of state, and in the Prime Minister's Office, where he was an economic policy adviser and speechwriter to the PM.
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Klas Eklund was one of the closest collaborators of Kjell-Olof Feldt, the then Minister of Finance, and was seen as one of the leading modernisers of the Swedish Social Democratic party.
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Klas Eklund has chaired several government commissions, including the Swedish Productivity Advisory Panel and "The commission to enhance the efficiency of the public sector".
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Klas Eklund was the secretary of a joint effort from the labour movement to write a strategic vision of the future beyond the welfare state.
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Klas Eklund has served as an economic policy adviser to the European Commission, and participated in an international expert group which in 2009 published a plan for China's climate policy.
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Klas Eklund is on a number of boards including the Sixth General Pension Fund, and Mistra, a government-funded foundation for environmental research.
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In 2010, Klas Eklund received the first Jacob Palmstierna award for economic writing.
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Klas Eklund was selected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences IVA.
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Klas Eklund has published some 1,000 articles in different magazines and newspapers.
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Klas Eklund has written books on taxes, globalisation and growth.
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Klas Eklund has published a book on climate change, "Vart klimat", a biography of former Swedish PM Olof Palme, and a book about China's economic and political development.
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Apart from economic and political publications, Klas Eklund has written the political thriller Lackan which was made into a TV series, broadcast on Swedish national television in 1994.
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Klas Eklund's elder son Sigge Eklund is a novelist and screenwriter, and his younger son is Fredrik Eklund, a real estate broker and reality show TV star.