Lund University is a public research university in Sweden and one of northern Europe's oldest universities. The university is located in the city of Lund in the province of Scania,Sweden. It traces its roots back to 1425,when a Franciscan studium generale was founded in Lund. After Sweden won Scania from Denmark in the 1658 Treaty of Roskilde,the university was officially founded in 1666 on the location of the old studium generale next to Lund Cathedral.
Alva Myrdal was a Swedish sociologist,diplomat and politician. She was a prominent leader of the disarmament movement. She,along with Alfonso García Robles,received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. She married Gunnar Myrdal in 1924;he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974,making them the fourth ever married couple to have won Nobel Prizes,and the first to win independent of each other.
Karl Gunnar Myrdal was a Swedish economist and sociologist. In 1974,he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences along with Friedrich Hayek for "their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic,social and institutional phenomena." When his wife,Alva Myrdal,received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982,they became the fourth ever married couple to have won Nobel Prizes,and the first to win independent of each other. He is best known in the United States for his study of race relations,which culminated in his book An American Dilemma:The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. The study was influential in the 1954 landmark U.S. Supreme Court Decision Brown v. Board of Education. In Sweden,his work and political influence were important to the establishment of the Folkhemmet and the welfare state. Myrdal and his wife advocated for social engineering.
The Archbishop of Uppsala has been the primate of Sweden in an unbroken succession since 1164,first during the Catholic era,and from the 1530s and onward under the Lutheran church.
Thomas Östros is a Swedish economist,former Social Democratic politician and CEO of the Swedish Bankers' Association. In 2015 he was named Executive Director for Northern Europe at the International Monetary Fund.
Gunnar Valfrid Jarring was a Swedish diplomat and Turkologist.
Jan Kenneth Eliasson is a Swedish diplomat who was Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations from July 2012 to December 2016. A member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party,Eliasson served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 24 April to 6 October 2006. Eliasson was appointed as Governing Board Chair of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in April 2017 and assumed his role as of 1 June 2017.
Gunnar Edvard Heckscher was a Swedish political scientist and leader of the Rightist Party,which later became the Moderate Party.
Jan-Mikael Lindström is a retired Swedish diplomat,serving as the Ambassador of Sweden to China and Mongolia from 2006 to 2010. Previous postings include:
Antje Jackelén is archbishop emerita and primate emerita of the Church of Sweden,the national church. On 15 October 2013,she was elected the 70th Archbishop of Uppsala and formally received through a service in Uppsala Cathedral on 15 June 2014,making her Sweden's first foreign-born archbishop since the 12th century,and the first female archbishop.
Bo Lennart Georg Siegbahn (1915–2008) was a Swedish diplomat and politician.
Tommy Möller is a Swedish professor of Political science at Stockholm University,and a frequent conservative political commentator in the Swedish media.
Stefan Peter Hedlund is a Swedish academic,an expert on Soviet and Communist studies/Russian studies,and Professor of East European Studies at Uppsala University. Currently he is also Research Director at UCRS Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies. He has published extensively on the Soviet economic system,Russian economic reform and the attempted transition to democracy and market economy.
Árni Þór Sigurðsson is an Icelandic diplomat and former member of the Althing. He is currently serving as Iceland's Ambassador to the Russian Federation,also accredited to Armenia,Azerbaijan,Belarus,Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,Moldova,Tajikistan,Turkmenistan,and Uzbekistan.
Karl-Anders Ingvar Wollter was a Swedish diplomat.
Henrik Sven Hirdman,born 28 September 1939 in Stavanger,Norway,is a Swedish diplomat and ambassador.
Lars-Gunnar Bertil Wigemark is a Swedish diplomat.
Olof Tobias Sebastian Thyberg is a Swedish diplomat who is Sweden's Ambassador to Ukraine from September 2019.
Nils Krister Bringéus is a Swedish diplomat. He served as a member of diplomatic staff and as Ambassador of Sweden to Serbia and to Norway from the 1970s and into the 2020s.
