Mats Persson
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.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.
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