Mats Engman

Major General Mats Erik Engman (born 13 April 1954) is a retired officer in the Swedish Air Force. Engman has served as Deputy Director of Military Intelligence & Security, as Deputy Chief of Policy and Plans Department and as head of the Swedish delegation to the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission (NNSC) in Korea.

Career

Military career Engman was commissioned as an officer in the Swedish Air Force in 1976 and was assigned to Bråvalla Wing with the rank of second lieutenant. He was promoted to lieutenant the same year. Engman was promoted to captain in 1970 and then served at Västmanland Wing. From 1983 to 1984, he served as a military observer for the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) in Tiberias, Israel and Cairo, Egypt. In 2014, Engman attended the Senior International Intelligence Fellows Program at the Joint Military Intelligence College in Washington, D.C. He was succeeded by Rear Admiral Anders Grenstad on 1 March 2017.

Later career In October 2017, Engman retired from active service and transferred to the reserve. He then worked as Director Exercise Evaluation, Viking 2018, Exercise Director for the Defence Staff CPX 2018 in conjunction with Exercise Trident Juncture 2018, as well as Director Exercise Evaluation for Total Defence Exercise 2020. In January 2018, he joined the Institute for Security & Development Policy as a Distinguished Military Fellow, working with focus on security policy, military strategy and crisis management, paying particular attention to East Asia, and the Korean Peninsula.

Dates of rank 1976 – Second lieutenant 1976 – Lieutenant 1979 – Captain 1984 – Major 1993 – 1996 – Colonel 2007 – Brigadier general 2015 – Major general

Awards and decorations

Swedish

Foreign

Legion of Merit