Per Jansson new deputy head of department

At its meeting today the Executive Board of the Riksbank appointed Per Jansson Deputy Head of the Monetary Policy Department. He will take up his appointment on 1 February 2003.

Per Jansson is an associate professor in economics and currently employed as deputy head of the forecasting department at the National Institute of Economic Research. Prior to that post, he was Deputy Head of the Monetary Policy Department at the Riksbank. Mr Jansson has also worked as researcher at the Trade Union Institute for Economic Research and at the National Institute of Economic Research. During 1995 and 1996 he was also secretary of the Economic Council of Sweden and a consultant at the Riksbank.