Mats Persson (Bankeryd,[1] 1978[2]) is a Swedish consultant resident in the United Kingdom and former advisor of UK prime minister David Cameron on EU affairs.
To do so Persson recruited a pan-EU staff and co-founded and joining the advisory board of Open Europe Berlin (launched 2012).
[6] He has written and published on a broad range of issues including the eurozone crisis,[7] institutional reform,[8] EU budget, financial regulation, trade policy, German politics and Britain's position in Europe.
[21] In a 2013 feature in Swedish left-leaning magazine Arena, author and journalist Katrine Kielos labelled Mats "one of the politically most influential Swedes in Europe".
[23] In 2012, however, Rennie noted that Open Europe had by then fallen in with the Europhile consensus saying "the hostility of earlier reports" was "muted" under Open Europe's then director, Mats Persson, and that the group had "worked to shake off an early reputation as a partisan campaign group, which concentrated exclusively on negative aspects of the European project".