Stig Svante Stockselius (; born 31 December 1955) is a

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and television executive. He was the executive supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest from 2004 to 2010 and the

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from 2003 to 2010.

Early life and career

Svante Stockselius grew up in

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, a small town in central Sweden. He started his career as a journalist. For 16 years, he worked for the Stockholm-based evening newspaper '' Expressen''. As head of the entertainment division of the Swedish

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company Sveriges Television from the late 1990s, he worked with the

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, held in Stockholm. He was also the architect of a major revamp of the Swedish ESC qualification competition, Melodifestivalen, in 2002, introducing four semi-finals and a Second Chance round preceding the finals. After

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's ESC victory in 2001, Stockselius was asked by the Estonian television channel

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to take part in the preparations for the 2002 event. In 2002 he went on to work for the commercial Swedish television channel

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. In 2003 he was offered the job as ESC Executive Supervisor. It was announced on 30 August 2010 that he would be resigning after the

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to "give others the opportunity to take the event to the next level". In November 2010, Norwegian television executive

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was appointed the new executive supervisor of the ESC.

References

External links

Interview with Svante Stockselius
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esctoday.com
(2006)
"Svante Stockselius är chef för hela ESC"
- Interview with Finnish television company

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