Research team

Biographical information

Areas of expertise

• Defence economics
• Arms industry
• Defence policies
• Military and operational issues

Professional experience

• Policy analysis for Ministry of Defence
• Policy and scholarly collaboration with actors in Europe, the USA and Asia
• Guest researcher in France and in the USA

Other activities

• Programme Director for Master’s programme in Defence and Security systems
• Lecturer at Swedish Defence University for Officer’s Programme, Higher Officer’s Programme and Civil Master’s Programme
• Numerous invitations to present at conferences and workshops in Europe, the USA and Asia (Japan, Singapore, South Korea)

Education

• PhD in Business Administration at the Stockholm School of Economics (2011; PhD title: Transatlantic Defence Industry Integration – Discourse and action, the organizational field of the defence market)
• Master’s degree (Industrial marketing) in Business Administration from Uppsala University
• Technical officer for JA37 Viggen, Swedish Air Force College (now reserve officer, Swedish Air Force)

Publications

• “The evolution towards the partial strategic autonomy of Sweden’s essential security interests”, Defence and Peace Economics, Vol. 33, n° 4, 2022, pp. 399-420
• “Does the method for Military Utility Assessment of Future Technologies provide utility?”, Technology in Society, Vol. 67, 2021, pp. 1-10 (with Stefan Silfverskiöld, Kent Andersson)
• “The Swedish defence industry – drawn between globalization and the domestic pendulum of doctrine and governance”, book chapter in Keith Hartley, Jean Belin (eds.), The economics of the global defence industry, Routledge, 2019, pp. 290-311
• “Absorbing New Military Capabilities: Defense technology Acquisition and the Asia-Pacific” in Richard A. Bitzinger (ed.), Emerging Critical Technologies and Security in the Asia-Pacific, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 37-52
• CMTC Policy Renewal: A study of Civil-Military Technology Cooperation (CMTC) policies, and planning and management, in Korea, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia, and the European Defence Agency, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), 2016
• “How are defence companies responding to EU defence and security market liberalization? A comparative study of Norway and Sweden”, Journal of European Public Policy, May 2014 (with Fulvio Castelacci, Arne Fevolden)
• “The development of the Swedish defence technology complex”, Eksport Vooruzheny (in Russian), CAST, Moscow, n° 1, 2013, pp. 21-30

In the publication series Défense & Industries from Fondation pour la recherche stratégique:

• “Sweden and Finland steering towards NATO – absent anchorage in Ankara”, 2022
• “The Gripen Fighter: Present and Future Flight”, 2017
• “The Patriot act — Sweden’s choice of medium range air defence”, 2017
• “Defending Sweden under the new government coalition”, 2015
• “The maiden voyage of Saab Kockums”, 2014
• “Kockums – the Repatriation of the Swedish Underwater Crown Jewel”, 2014