Stefan Hedlund

Stefan Peter Hedlund (born 20 December 1953) is a Swedish academic, an expert on Soviet and Communist studies/Russian studies, and Professor of East European Studies at Uppsala University (since 1990).

[1] Currently he is also Research Director at UCRS Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

After a short stint as a Senior Analyst at the Bureau of Soviet and East European Affairs in 1983, he was a research fellow at the Department of Economics at Lund University, until being appointed Assistant Professor of Soviet and East European Studies at Uppsala University in 1984.

He was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics at Lund University 1985-1990, and became Professor of Soviet and East European Studies at Uppsala University in 1990.

He also writes for World Review[3] and Prince Michael of Liechtenstein's Geopolitical Intelligence Services AG.