Klas Eklund

Klas Eklund (born 16 July 1952) is a Swedish economist and writer.

Eklund was born in Uppsala as the son of the actor couple Bengt Eklund (1925-1998) and Fylgia Zadig (1921-1994). He went to high school in Stockholm, but also spent a year at Wausau Senior High in Wisconsin. He completed a BA degree in economics from the Stockholm School of Economics, where he later completed a Licentiate degree. He also has a degree in economic history from the University of Stockholm.

From 1982 until the resignation of the Social Democratic government in 1990, he was employed in the Swedish Ministry of Finance, where he finally held the position of deputy undersecretary of state, and in the Prime Minister's Office, where he was an economic policy adviser and speechwriter. He was one of the close collaborators of Kjell-Olof Feldt, the then Minister of Finance, and was seen as a member of the right-wing of the Swedish Social Democratic party. From 1994 to 2007 he was the chief economist of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, one of the largest banks in Scandinavia. Since 2007, he is the bank's Senior Economist.

His many publications include the textbook "Vår ekonomi. En introduktion till samhällsekonomin" ("Our Economy: An Introduction to Economics"), first published in 1987, in its 11th revised edition in 2007. It is commonly used in courses in economics and economic history in Swedish universities and has been translated into several languages, including Russian and Chinese. Apart from economic publications, he has written the political thriller "Läckan" ("The Leak", 1990) which was made into a TV series, broadcast on Swedish national television in 1994.

His elder son Sigge Eklund is a novelist, and his younger son is Fredrik Eklund, a businessman and former porn actor who has published a novel in 2005.

External links

* [http://www.klaseklund.com/ Klas Eklund] , official website
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