Per G. Malm

Who is Per G. Malm?

Per Gösta Malm has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 2010. Malm is the first general authority who was a resident of Sweden at the time of his call.

Malm was raised by Latter-day Saint parents. His father had read the Book of Mormon and then told the missionaries he was meeting with that he wanted to be baptized. Malm first met his wife, Ingrid Agneta Karlsson, at a campground while their families were traveling to the Bern Switzerland Temple. They were later married in the Bern Switzerland Temple and are the parents of eight children.

At age 16, Malm was called as a construction missionary for the LDS Church. He worked as a bricklayer on buildings in Sweden, Finland, Germany, and the Netherlands. After serving a short time in the Swedish military, Malm served as a regular LDS Church missionary in the church's Sweden Stockholm Mission.

Malm has degrees in business and public law from the University of Gothenburg and his Swedish law degree from the University of Lund.

Malm spent much of his career as an employee of the LDS Church's Office of the Presiding Bishop, overseeing building maintenance, budgets and other temporal affairs of the church. He was for a time director of Temporal Affairs in the Church's Europe Area.