Jan-Mikael Lindström (born 1944) is a retired Swedish

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, serving as the

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Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

and Mongolia from 2006 to 2010. Previous postings include: * 2002-2006 Swedish Ambassador to

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

* 2000-2002 Chief Co-ordinator for Trade and Investment Promotion, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, in

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

. * 1998-2000 Head of the Trade Minister's office (rank of Ambassador), Stockholm * 1994-1998 Swedish Ambassador to Indonesia * 1990-1994 Minister Plenipotentiary and Uruguay Round negotiator, Swedish Delegation to the International Organisations in Geneva * 1989-1990 Deputy Head of Department for Multilateral Trade Affairs, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Stockholm Prior to 1989 he had postings with the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Washington DC, Paris and

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. Mikael Lindström was born in the Municipality of Solna outside Stockholm on 20 August 1944 to Monica Lindström (deceased in 2007) and Jan-Gunnar Lindström (deceased in 1969). He is married to Kerstin Lindström (née Davidson) and has three children. He studied at Uppsala University, Sweden, receiving a degree in law in 1967 and one in economics and political science in 1970. In 1968-1969 he was a Ford Foundation fellow in international law, a Fulbright scholar and received an LL.M. degree from Northwestern University Law School, Chicago, USA. 2011-2020 Lindstrom was a senior advisor to Huawei Sweden. Mikael Lindstrom is currently a senior advisor with the business consultancy Six Year Plan AB. He is also chairman of Sweden Asia Consulting AB.

External links

Profile on the Swedish Foreign Ministry website

Profile on the Embassy of Sweden, Beijing website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lindstrom, Mikael 1944 births Living people Ambassadors of Sweden to Japan Ambassadors of Sweden to Indonesia Ambassadors of Sweden to China Ambassadors of Sweden to Mongolia Uppsala University alumni Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law alumni