Ingemar Ståhl (June 2, 1938 – February 6, 2014) was a
Swedish
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economist
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and an economics professor from
Lund University
, motto = Ad utrumque
, mottoeng = Prepared for both
, established =
, type = Public research university
, budget = SEK 9 billion
Life
Ståhl was born on June 2, 1938, in
Stockholm
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,
Sweden
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.
He graduated, with a
bachelor degree
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, in 1958 in the
University of Stockholm
Stockholm University ( sv, Stockholms universitet) is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, soci ...
Lund University
, motto = Ad utrumque
, mottoeng = Prepared for both
, established =
, type = Public research university
, budget = SEK 9 billion He died on February 6, 2014, in
Lund
Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, across the Øresund, Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipali ...
, Sweden at the age of 75.
Career
For 25 years, Ståhl was a member of Ragnar Söderberg Foundation, an organization dedicated to scientific researches. Ståhl has also worked as an Advisor to the Cabinet Office of the
Government of Sweden
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and the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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(OECD). Since 1982, he was also a member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences or ''Kungliga Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien'' (IVA), founded on 24 October 1919 by King Gustaf V, is one of the royal academies in Sweden. The academy is an independent organisation, which promo ...
.
Nobel Prize
Ståhl was part of the
Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
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from 1969 until 1984. His committee duties included proposing laureates for the Prize.