Organisation

The Swedish Competition Authority is divided into eight departments.

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We have approximately 145 employees, most of them are lawyers and economists. 52 percent of the employees are women and 48 percent are men.

Director General and management group

The management group consists of the Director General and the heads of departments.

Director General

Dan Sjöblom

DG Coordination

The department supports the Director-General in strategic matters.

Responsible for international affairs: Karin Lunning
Press Officer: Jimmy Dominius
Responsible for merger coordination: Maria Ulfvensjö Baltatzis
Responsible for tip-off and complaints function: Peter Delden

Competition Department 1

The department initiates investigations into alleged infringements of the Competition Act and the EC competition rules and handles notifications of concentrations between undertakings. The department is also responsible for the coordination of leniency applications.

Principal areas: building sector, food sector including non-durable goods and agriculture sector.

Head of Department and Deputy Director General Operation: Anne Vadasz-Nilsson
Deputy Head of Department: Hanna Witt
Leniency co-ordinator: Hanna Lekås

Competition Department 2

The department initiates investigations into alleged infringements of the Competition Act and the EC competition rules and handles notifications of concentrations between undertakings. 

Principal areas: financial services, telecommunications, media and IT.

Head of Department: Gunnel Schön
Deputy Head of Department: Kristian Viidas

Competition Department 3

The department initiates investigations into alleged infringements of the Competition Act and the EC competition rules and handles notifications of concentrations between undertakings.  

Principal areas: transport, energy, chemical-technical industry and pharmaceuticals.

Head of Department: Göran Karreskog
Deputy Head of Department: Linda Skoogberg

Competition Department 4

The department initiates investigations of competition between public and private sectors and handles notifications of concentrations between undertakings. The department also has special responsibility regarding the Transparency Act. The department has the overall responsibility for research.

Principal areas: health care in the public sector.

Head of Department: Johan Hedelin
Deputy Head of Department: Magnus Lindbäck

Department for enforcement of public procurement laws

The department is responsible for monitoring the compliance with the Public Procurement Act and for guidance and information about public procurement.

Head of Department: Ellen Hausel Heldahl
Deputy Head of Department: Ann Fryksdahl

Office of the Chief Economist

The department is responsible for economic analysis.

Acting Chief Economist: Arvid Fredenberg
Acting Deputy Chief Economist: Martin Mandorff

Legal Department

Represents the Authority in the courts and is responsible for legal analyses.

Head of Department: Per Karlsson

Administrative Department

The department is responsible for the Authority’s overall planning process, communication, personnel, budget and financial issues and IT co-ordination.

Head of Department and Deputy Director General Administration: Kristina Geiger
Team leader HR: Urban Moberg
Team leader Communication: Kerstin Riese
Team leader Finance: Rigmor Öberg
Team leader It: Håkan Carlsson
Team leader assistants: Agneta Olsson

Councils affiliated to the Competition Authority

Council for Competition Research

The Authority contributes to competition related research in the disciplines of economics and law. In this work we have support from an affiliated body, the Council for Competition Research.

Secretary of the Council for Competition Research: Joakim Wallenklint

Council for Public Procurement

The Council is an important support for the Authority's efforts to exercise oversight of public procurement and provides a forum for the exchange of experience in terms of both general procurement issues as questions about the need for measures to support the development of an efficient public procurement.

Secretary of the Council for Public Procurement: Magnus Johansson