Nils Lundgren
Nils Gustav Herman Lundgren is a Swedish politician and economist, who is a former Member of the European Parliament. Between 2004 and 2008 he was the leader of the eurosceptical June List, which he had co-founded.
He was elected to the European Parliament in 2004 and was a member of the bureau of the Independence and Democracy group, and vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control. He was also a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, and a member of the delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee. He did not stand for re-election as a MEP in the 2009 elections.
Education
- Doctorate in economics from Stockholm University
Career
- University lecturer in economics, Stockholm
- Economics expert at EFTA secretariat in Geneva
- Research at Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm
- Researcher, Ministry of Industry
- Guest researcher, Reading University
- Head of research unit, National Institute of Economic Research
- Chief economist, PK-banken subsequently Nordbanken subsequently MeritaNordbanken
- Economic adviser Nordea
- Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences since 1988.
- Artillery reserve officer
- Previously chairman and member of the Board of a number of Swedish and international companies and organisations
- Editor-in-chief of Ekonomisk debatt
- Integration i Västeuropa , Industripolitikens spelregler and Europa ja - euro nej , as well as a number of other books, publications and articles