Jan Thörnqvist

Vice Admiral Anders Jan-Eric Törnqvist (born 9 October 1959) is a retired Swedish Navy officer.

[2] He was commanding officer of the Diving Support Vessel HSwMS Skaftö from 1987 to 1988 and completed the Staff Course at the Swedish National Defence College in 1989.

From 1997 to 1999 he completed the Advanced Command Program at the Swedish National Defence College and was then Chief of Staff in the Visby-class corvette Trials Unit at the 3rd Naval Warfare Flotilla in Karlskrona from 1999 to 2001.

From 2005 to 2006 he headed the Forces Development, Plans and Policy Staff in the Joint Headquarters and from 2006 to 2009 Thörnqvist was commander of the 4th Naval Warfare Flotilla.

[4] Thörnqvist was promoted on 1 March 2011 to Rear Admiral and was appointed Chief of Navy the same day[5] and was in this position the head of the Maritime Component Command.