Ann-Marie Göransson

Major General Inger Ann-Marie Göransson (born 6 January 1947) was the first female general in the Swedish Armed Forces. She served as the Surgeon-General of the Swedish Armed Forces from 1997 to 2004.

Early life and Education Göransson was born on 6 January 1947 in Malmö, Sweden, the daughter of Gustav Göransson, a carpenter, Göransson worked as a temp which gave her a Doctor of Medicine degree. In the mid-1980s, she was invited to the United States Army for two years working as a teacher in field surgery, and building a laboratory in Washington for wound ballistics research. During her time in the Defence Staff, she was responsible for the coordination of all research within the Swedish Armed Forces, i.e. also outside the medical field. Among other things, the development of a new radar and research into the effects of new weapons systems. In the mid-1990s, Göransson served in the Ministry of Defence with demining issues. On 1 July 1997, she took office as the Surgeon-General of the Swedish Armed Forces. On 1 May 2004, Göransson assumed the position of Representative for the Swedish National Armaments Director (NAD) at the Swedish EU representation in Brussels, where she was responsible, among other things, for the Swedish participation in the establishment of an EU authority for defense capacity development, research, procurement and defense equipment cooperation.

Dates of rank 19?? – Second lieutenant 19?? – Lieutenant 19?? – Captain 19?? – Major 1981 – Lieutenant colonel 1986 – Colonel 19?? – Senior colonel 1997 – Major general