Carl Haglund

Carl Christoffer "Calle" Haglund (born 29 March 1979 in Espoo) is the CEO of KH Group, after the role in Veritas, former MP, former chairman of the Swedish People's Party and the former Minister of Defence. He was a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2012. Haglund was elected chairman of his party in June 2012. Haglund serves as the chairman of the board for Finnish Business and Policy Forum 'EVA' and Research Institute of the Finnish Economy 'ETLA'. Haglund served on the board of Enersense International PLC. He resigned in July 2025 after being nominated as the CEO of Aktia Bank PLC. However, he was fired in September 2025 before taking office.

In the 2015 Finnish parliamentary election, Haglund received over 21,000 votes, the fourth largest number of votes in the country. In March 2016, Haglund announced that he would not run for another term as the chairman, as he was disappointed in politics and wanted to spend more time with his family. On 12 June 2016, he was followed by the former Minister of Justice of Finland Anna-Maja Henriksson.

On 21 June 2016, Haglund announced that he would leave the Parliament to work for the Chinese bioenergy company Sunshine Kaidi New Energy Group. He left his seat on 30 July and was followed by Veronica Rehn-Kivi. In 2018 he joined Accenture as its Nordic head of banking and insurance business.

Education Haglund obtained his International Baccalaureate (IB) at Mattlidens Gymnasium in Espoo. He obtained his MBA from the Hanken School of Economics in 2007.

Personal life Haglund has Fenno-Swedish background. He has two children (Edward Carl Wilhelm Haglund) with his former wife.

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