Major General Jan Robert Andreas Andersson (born 22 July 1955) is a retired Swedish Air Force officer.
He studied to become an engineer but dropped out and enrolled at the Swedish Air Force Flying School in Ljungbyhed.
[2] In the mid-1980s he was recruited to Linjeflyg as a commercial pilot but decided to stay in the air force.
He was then promoted to brigadier general and was appointed chief of staff and Deputy Chief of the Air Force Command in Uppsala as well as Deputy Inspector General of the Air Force on 1 April 2001.
[1] Andersson served in this position until 2008 when he was succeeded by Anders Silwer and appointed military attaché in Washington, D.C.[5] He retired from the Swedish Armed Forces in 2011 and then hold a position as Senior Military Advisor at the Swedish Defence and Security Export Agency (Försvarsexportmyndigheten).