Göran Bundy

Göran Fredrik Bundy (born 10 June 1921) is a former Swedish diplomat.

Biography

Bundy was born in Malmö, Sweden and is the son of Håkan Bundy and Märta Thorell. He received a Candidate of Law degree from Lund University in 1946 and served in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1948 and 1953. Bundy served in Prague in 1949, Paris in 1950, Canberra in 1957, Cairo in 1958 and Tehran in 1960.^[1] He was first secretary at the Foreign Ministry in 1960, director in 1963 and the acting chargé d'affaires in Nicosia in 1964. Bundy was commercial counsellor at the embassy in Washington, D.C. in 1965, deputy director at the Foreign Ministry in 1971 and embassy counsellor in Helsinki in 1972. He was ambassador in Kuwait City, Doha, Manama and Abu Dhabi from 1977 to 1980 and in Tehran from 1980 to 1985. Bundy served in the Foreign Ministry in Stockholm from 1985 to 1986.^[1]

In 2013, together with his sister Eva, Bundy founded the Eva and Göran Bundy's Foundation in support of medical research at Lund University to support research in cardiology and neurology.^[2]

References

1. Uddling, Hans; Paabo, Katrin, eds. (1992). Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1993 [Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1993] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Norstedt. p. 186. ISBN 91-1-914072-X.
2. Sandahl, Johanna (2013-12-13). "Stor privat donation till medicinsk forskning" [Large private donation for medical research] (in Swedish). Lund University. Retrieved 12 June 2014.