Mats Persson

Mats Persson is a special adviser to UK Prime Minister David Cameron, first appointed in 2015[1][2].

He was previously director of Open Europe, a think tank which promotes ideas for political and economic reform in Europe 2010-2015.[3] He was also a co-founder and advisory board member of Open Europe Berlin.[4]

He has written and published on a broad range of issues relating to Europe and the European Union including the eurozone crisis,[5] institutional reform,[6] EU budget, financial regulation, trade policy, German politics and Britain's position in Europe. He tweets on European policy as "matsJpersson".[7]

Mats Persson was a regular commentator in UK and international media. He wrrote a regular blog for the Daily Telegraph[8] and has written in The Times,[9] the Sunday Times,[10] The Guardian,[11] the Wall Street Journal,[12] Dagens Nyheter[13] and several other papers and publications. He has appeared numerous times on BBC Newsnight,[14][15] Sky News,[16] ITV News, CNBC and CNN as well as other European and international TV outlets.[17] He has contributed to various BBC radio programmes including The World Tonight [18] and the Today Programme.[19]

In a 2013 feature in Swedish left-leaning magazine Arena, author and journalist Katrine Kielos labelled Mats "one of the politically most influential Swedes in Europe".[20] In 2011, Mats Persson was selected by the Diplomatic Courier one of 99 influential international leaders aged 33 or under.[21] In 2014, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne noted that "Mats and the Open Europe team are influencing the debate not just in the UK but right across Europe."[22]

Mats grew up in Bankeryd, Sweden. He received a bachelor's degree from Liberty University in Virginia, United States, where he attended on an athletic scholarship. He was a member of the 2004 Liberty Flames basketball team [23] that won the Big South Conference, qualifying for the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship.[24] Mats was honored with the Christenberry Award for Academic Excellence by the Big South Conference, having graduated with a 4.0 Grade Point Average.[25] He received his master's degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

References

  1. ↑ "List of Special Advisers in post at 17 December 2015" (PDF). Gov.uk. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "Mats Persson, Sweden, The Alpha Think-Tanker". Politico Europe. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Open Europe appoints new Director". London: Open Europe. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  4. ↑ "Open Europe Berlin Kuratorium". Berlin: Open Europe Berlin. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  5. ↑ Persson, Mats (June 1, 2012). Better Off Out? The Short-Term Options for Greece Inside and Outside of the Euro (PDF). London: Open Europe. ISBN 978-1-907668-25-8. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  6. ↑ Persson, Mats (August 12, 2012). "Chapter 2: The Political Efficiency of the EU". In Zimmermann, Hubert. Key Controversies in European Integration. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 30–40. ISBN 978-1-137-00614-1.
  7. ↑ "Mats Persson (@matsJpersson) op Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
  8. ↑ "Mats Persson – Telegraph Blogs". London: Blogs.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  9. ↑ "Cameron has no plan for EU reform. Here’s one for him". The Times (UK). 19 December 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  10. ↑ "Sunday Times Opinion: Stop there, Brussels: let us locals take over". The Sunday Times (UK). 12 September 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  11. ↑ "Mats Persson: Ten Years On: What Britain can learn from the Swedish euro referendum". The Guardian (UK). 14 September 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  12. ↑ "Mats Persson: After the German elections". The Wall Street Journal (New York). 17 September 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  13. ↑ "DN Debatt: Flera skäl för Sverige att stödja Camerons EU-vision". Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm). 1 January 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  14. ↑ "In the news". Open Europe. 16 January 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
  15. ↑ "In the news". Open Europe. 12 October 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
  16. ↑ "In the news". Open Europe. 17 March 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
  17. ↑ "In The News". Open Europe. April 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
  18. ↑ "In the news". Open Europe. 22 June 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
  19. ↑ "EU institutions could be used for eurozone-specific purposes under new 'fiscal treaty'". Open Europe. 2 March 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
  20. ↑ Arena (tidskrift)"Portratt: Mats Persson". Arena (London). 19 June 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  21. ↑ "Diplomatic Courier: Top 99 under 33". 5 September 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  22. ↑ The Sunday Telegraph"Osborne's 6'7 Europe Guru". The Sunday Telegraph (London). 18 January 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  23. ↑ "Liberty Flames Men's Basketball Media Guide, 2003-2004". Lynchburg, Virginia: Liberty Flames.
  24. ↑ "NCAA Tournament history: Liberty Flames". ESPN. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  25. ↑ "George A. Christenberry Award". Charlotte, North Carolina: Big South Network. Retrieved 12 April 2014.


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