Claes-Göran Fant

Lieutenant General Claes-Göran Lennart Fant (born 28 January 1951) is a Swedish Army officer. His senior commands include commanding officer of the Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate and head of the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters.

Early life Fant was born on 28 January 1951 in Kungsbacka, Sweden. After mandatory military service in the Göta Anti-Aircraft Regiment (Lv 6) in Gothenburg, he attended the Military Academy Karlberg and was commissioned as an officer in 1973.

Career

Military career Fant served in Göta Anti-Aircraft Regiment and was promoted to captain in 1976 and in 1981 he commence a one-year long staff course at the Swedish Armed Forces Staff College after which he was promoted to major in 1982. In 1983, Fant served abroad as part of a UN peacekeeping mission. He served as company commander in the Göta Anti-Aircraft Regiment during two years until 1986, He then completed two-year long higher staff course at the Swedish Armed Forces Staff College. Fan was promoted to lieutenant colonel and served as battalion commander in Göta Anti-Aircraft Regiment from 1991 to 1993. He then served as chief of staff in the Initial Operations Planning Group (IOPG) in Vienna for the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict from 1993 to 1994 when he was promoted to colonel. He was then head of the Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate at the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters from 21 June 2004 to 31 December 2004. In this capacity, Fant was also head of the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters. Fant later served as head of development with responsibility for the transformation of the forces from conscription to modern mobile rapid reaction forces. He was promoted to lieutenant general on 1 September 2005.

Post-retirement Fant is owner of Fant Service and Development AB from 2009 and he served as senior advisor of Strategic Solutions AB from January 2011 to 2015 and senior consultant of Solid affärs coaching AB from 2013 to 2015.

Dates of rank 1973 – Second lieutenant 19?? – Lieutenant 1976 – Captain 1982 – Major 1991 – Lieutenant colonel 1994 – Colonel 1996 – Senior colonel 2000 – Brigadier general 2002 – Major general 2005 – Lieutenant general

Honours Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences (1996)