Short biography

Professor Henry Ohlsson, born 1956, got his PhD at Umeå University, Sweden, in 1988. He became associate professor at Uppsala University in 1991 and was promoted to professor in June 1999. During the period November 1999–June 2003 he was professor at Department of Economics, School of Economics and Commercial Law, Göteborg University. He is professor at Department of Economics, Uppsala University since July 2003. Henry Ohlsson was elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences in 2009.

Henry Ohlsson was visiting assistant professor at Department of Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA during the academic year 1992/93. He has also visited LEM and ERMES, Université Panthéon–Assas Paris II, France, several times.

Henry Ohlsson's research is mainly in the fields of public economics and labor economics. He has published 30 articles in international scientific journals, such as Review of Economics and Statistics, European Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Applied Econometrics. He is a member of the Nordic Tax Research Council since 2011. Henry Ohlsson was a member of the Swedish Research Council's committee for Economic Research and Statistics 2001–2004.

Henry Ohlsson is a member of the university board of Uppsala University since 2010, elected by his peers. The Swedish government appointed Henry Ohlsson as member of the board of the Swedish Public Employment Service in 2007. Since 1997, Henry Ohlsson is also one of four independent economists in the Economic Council for Swedish Industry. The council has been appointed by the social partners within industry and advises the partners. Henry Ohlsson has served as an expert in several Swedish Official Government Committees on fiscal policy issues. He has been the chairman of the Economic Council of Sweden. This council was a group of academic economists who initiated and provided information about important economic policy research and advised the Swedish Ministry of Finance and the Swedish National Institute of Economic Research on scientific matters.