Christer Sturmark

Nils Gösta Christer Sturmark, born 7 September 1964 in Danderyd, Stockholm County, is a Swedish author, IT-entrepreneur and prominent debater on religion and humanism in Swedish media.

He is the CEO of publishing house Fri Tanke, a Secular Humanist and former chairman of the Swedish Humanist Association, Humanisterna.

Career Sturmark enrolled on a master's degree in computer science at Uppsala University with the aim of starting research in artificial intelligence. Instead, he dropped out of the semester to become an entrepreneur.

During his studies, he worked extra on the side teaching people how to use computers, and in 1989, Sturmark started the computer training company Datamedia, which among other things published several hundred books about different programmes for personal computers. At its peak, the company had 60 employees. When the internet took off in Sweden in the mid-1990s, Sturmark released the first Swedish book about the internet: Internet@Sverige (1996). but was not elected.

In 2007, Sturmark started the publishing house Fri Tanke together with ABBA member Björn Ulvaeus. and editor-in-chief of its magazine, Sans. Between 2005 and 2018, he was chairman of the Humanists Association.