Gunnar Lund

Nils Gunnar Wiggo Lund (born 26 July 1947) is a Swedish diplomat and politician.

Early life Lund was born on 26 July 1947 in Karlskoga, Sweden, the son of Wiggo Lund, a lawyer, and his wife Brita (née Wahlqvist), a librarian. Lund did his military service as an interpreter in Uppsala and was educated in Russian. He graduated from Stockholm University and Uppsala University with a bachelor's degree in political economics, political science and Russian in 1971. Lund received a master's degree in political economics and international law from Columbia University in 1972.

Career Lund worked at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 1972 to 1976 and as a desk officer (departementssekreterare) at the Ministry of Finance from 1976 to 1977, and at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry from 1977 to 1980. He was financial advisor in the Swedish delegation at the OECD from 1980 to 1983, director (departementsråd) at the Ministry of Finance from 1983 to 1988, state secretary at the Ministry of Finance from 1988 to 1991, and ambassador at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1994. Lund worked at the National Swedish War Materials Inspectorate in 1994 and was state secretary at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 1994. Lund was Sweden's chief negotiator at the EU's intergovernmental conference from 1996 to 1997.

Personal life In 1980, Lund married state secretary Kari Lotsberg (born 1950), the daughter of civil engineer Oddleiv Lotsberg and Helene (née Svane).