Between 1961 and 1966 he was responsible for oil exploration activities in the North Sea and Portugal for the Ax:son Johnson Group.
In 1966, he moved with his family to Geneva to work as assistant director of the Centre d’Etudes Industrielles (which later became the International Institute for Management Development).
Adolf's brother Bertil (1946-2005) was head of the Kontoret för Särskild Inhämtning (The Office for Special Collection).
In the United States Lundin was involved with the conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation based in Washington, D.C. (Reagan Doctrine/ Kirkpatrick Doctrine).
[4] In 2000, Lundin invited the former prime minister (1991-1994) and EU envoy to the Balkans (1995) Carl Bildt to join his board of directors.
He became the honorary chairman of Lundin Petroleum AB, the chairman of Vostok Nafta Investment Ltd and a director of North Atlantic Natural Resources AB, Atacama Minerals Corp., Champion Resources Inc., South Atlantic Ventures Ltd, Tenke Mining Corp. and Valkyries Petroleum Corp. Adolf Lundin died in 2006, aged 73, from leukemia.