Thomas Nilsson (Swedish Air Force officer)

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Thomas Nilsson
Birth nameUlf Thomas Nilsson
Born (1963-10-01) 1 October 1963 (age 59)
Allegiance Sweden
Service/branch Swedish Air Force
Years of service1984–present
RankLieutenant general
Commands held Command and Control Regiment
Chief Information Officer, SAFHQ
Director of Military Intelligence and Security
Battles/wars War in Afghanistan

Lieutenant General Ulf Thomas Nilsson (born 1 October 1963) is a Swedish Air Force officer. He currently serves as the Director of Military Intelligence and Security from 1 May 2023. Prior to that Nilsson served as the Chief Information Officer of the Swedish Armed Forces from 2020 to 2022.

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Career

Nilsson graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1984. The first ten years of his career he served as fighter controller in various positions in the 101st and the 172nd Air Surveillance and Control Battalion. After graduation from the Advanced Command Course at the Swedish National Defence College in 1999, he served in various staff positions at the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters in Stockholm. During the first Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2001, he worked with support to the Permanent Representation of Sweden to the EU. During 2002–2005 he served as commanding officer of the 162nd Air Surveillance and Control Battalion in Uppsala. [1] Nilsson served as an ADC to His Majesty the King Carl XVI Gustaf from 2004 to 2015. [2] [1] Nilsson served as head of the Air Force Department in the Training & Procurement Staff at the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters from 2007 to 2009 [3] and then as head of the Coordination Section in the Air Component Command from 2009. [4] In 2010, Nilsson he served in ISAF Joint Command in Kabul, Afghanistan. He then served as commanding officer of the Command and Control Regiment in Enköping from 2011 to 2014. [1]

Colonel Nilsson was promoted to brigadier general on 27 January 2014. At the same time, Nilsson was appointed Director of the C4ISR Department at the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration until 31 December 2016. [1] [5] The Swedish Armed Forces posted Nilsson at the disposal of the Ministry of Defence from 1 September 2016 as a special attaché with a acting rank of major general. [6] At the Permanent Representative of Sweden to the European Union in Brussels, Major General Nilsson worked as a military advisor and also Sweden's military representative in the EU. He was sent by the Swedish government and represented Sweden in military matters. He was a Swedish representative in the European Union Military Committee, except when the Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces himself participates in committee meetings. Nilsson was also the Swedish military representative to NATO within the framework of the Partnership for Peace program. [7] The Swedish Armed Forces posted Nilsson at the disposal of the Ministry of Defence from 1 September 2019, and during the period 1 September 2019 to 31 August 2020, as special attache, he would continue to have the acting rank of major general. The Swedish Armed Forces granted Nilsson a leave of absence from the Swedish Armed Forces for limited employment as a special attaché in the position of military advisor at Sweden's Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels. [8]

Nilsson was appointed Chief Information Officer (CIO) in the Defence Staff at the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters from 1 September 2020. He was simultaneously promoted to major general. [9] As CIO, he kept up the work ahead of Sweden's accession to NATO. [10] Nilsson was placed at the disposal of the Chief of the Defence Staff, Lieutenant General Michael Claesson from 1 January 2023. [11] On 23 March 2023, the Swedish government appointed Nilsson as Director of Military Intelligence and Security from 1 May 2023. He was simultaneously promoted to lieutenant general. [12]

Personal life

Nilsson is married and has two sons. [1]

Dates of rank

Awards and decorations

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Military offices
Preceded by
Fredrik Robertsson
 Chief Information Officer
2020–2022		Succeeded by
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Preceded by Director of Military Intelligence and Security
2023–present		Succeeded by
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