Major General Mats Eric Helgesson (born 7 May 1964) is a retired Swedish Air Force officer.

[5] During this time, Helgesson also attended the Basic Course at Flygvapnets Uppsalaskolor in Uppsala in 1990 and the Advanced Course in 1992, as well as the Staff Course at the Swedish National Defence College from 1994 to 1995.

In 2009, he attended the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency's National and International Crisis Management Course in Stockholm and was appointed wing and air base commander of F 17.

[6] In 2013, he was promoted to brigadier general[3] and appointed head of Test and Evaluation (T&E) at the Defence Materiel Administration.

[7] Helgesson was appointed Chief of Air Force and was promoted to major general on 17 September 2015 and took office on 1 October 2015.