Staffan Burenstam Linder

Who was Staffan Burenstam Linder?

Hans Martin Staffan Burenstam Linder was a Swedish economist and conservative politician. He was Swedish Minister for Trade from 1976–78 and from 1979-81.

He was the son of forester Martin Linder and of Marianne Linder, née Burenstam. In 1956 he married Marie-Thérèse Dyrssen, who was headmaster of Enskilda Gymnasiet from 1989-2003.

As an adult, Staffan Linder began to use the name Burenstam to preserve this old name of nobility, whose last male bearer, his grandfather Fredrik Burenstam, had died without a male heir in 1949. In the scholarly world, Burenstam Linder is known under the name Linder. It wasn't till the 1980s that his family legally changed their name to Burenstam Linder.

In the period 1993-1995, Burenstam Linder chaired the Steering Committee of the EuroFaculty, which included the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga as he founded in 1994.