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 Swedish province of Scania. 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.
Uppsala University (UU) is a public research university in Uppsala,Sweden. Founded in 1477,it is the oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in operation.
Karl Gunnar Myrdal was a Swedish economist and sociologist.
Thomas Östros is a Swedish economist and Social Democratic politician who has been serving as vice president of the European Investment Bank (EIB) since 2020. Earlier in his career,he held positions as CEO of the Swedish Bankers' Association and 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.
Robert Nicholas Burns is an American diplomat and academic who has served as the United States ambassador to China since 2022.
Gunnar Edvard Heckscher was a Swedish political scientist and leader of the Conservative 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 the ambassador of Iceland to Denmark,and previously served as ambassador to Finland and to the Russian Federation.
Karl-Anders Ingvar Wollter was a Swedish diplomat.
Henrik Sven Hirdman,born 28 September 1939 in Stavanger,Norway,is a Swedish diplomat and ambassador.
Olof Tobias Sebastian Thyberg is a Swedish diplomat who is Sweden's Ambassador to Ukraine from September 2019.
Abdallah Rashid Bou Habib is a Lebanese economist,author,and diplomat who is serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs since September 2021.
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.
