Hans Tson Söderström

Since 1992 Hans Tson Söderström has served part time as Adjunct Professor of Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy in the Department of Economics at SSE. He received his PhD from the SSE in 1974 and was appointed Docent at the school in 1978. From 1970 until 1984 he was Research Fellow, Senior Fellow and finally Deputy Director at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University. Between 1985 and 2002 he served as President and CEO of SNS – the Swedish Center for Business and Policy Studies. In 2004 he returned full time to SSE to become President and CEO of the school’s executive education branch. After the merger with IFL in 2005 he served as Chairman of the Board of the merged company until June 2007. He is now Senior Advisor to the SSE. He is also Vice Chairman of the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Research Foundation. Professor Söderström’s main area of interest is macroeconomic policies in small open economies. With Martin Flodén he is engaged in a research project on “Macroeconomic policy in aging and globalized economies”.