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Mats Engström

Senior Analyst (environment, industrial policy)

Mats Engström has been involved in EU policy-making and analysis since the 1980s, inter alia as the first Environmental Attaché at the Swedish EU Representation, as Deputy State Secretary and Director of International Affairs at the Ministry for the Environment, and as an adviser to former Foreign Minister Anna Lindh. He has also followed EU policy as editorial writer at Aftonbladet, as Editor-in-Chief of the leading technology magazine Ny Teknik, as Policy Director at the trade union Unionen and as an analyst at the government agency Growth Analysis. 

Personal website

 

Areas of interest

  • EU climate and environment policy, energy transport

  • Innovation, digitalisation and European competetiveness

  • EU external relations, including EU-East Asia, EU-Russia

  • Civil society and EU legitimacy

 

Examples of publications

  • Europe should lead in greening digitalisation and AI (Euractiv 24 September 2018)

  • Bilan de la présidence suédoise de l’Union européenne (Terra Nova, med Paul Norden, 2010)

  • Ashton should green EU diplomacy (EU Observer 22 December 2009)

  • Latvia´s crisis: the Swedish factor (Open Democracy 10 June 2009)

  • The European Union and genetic information: time to act (Open Democracy 28 July 2003)

  • Rebooting Europe: Digital deliberation and European democracy (Foreign Policy Center, 2002)

  • Internet and foreign policy (KTH, 2000)