Klas Eklund

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Klas Eklund (born 16 July 1952) is a Swedish economist and writer.

Eklund was born in Uppsala as the son of the actor couple Bengt Eklund (1925-1998) and Fylgia Zadig (1921-1994). He completed a BA degree in economics from the Stockholm School of Economics, where he later completed a Licentiate degree. He also has a degree in economic history from the University of Stockholm.

From 1982 until the resignation of the Social Democratic government following the elections in 1990, he was employed in the Swedish Ministry of Finance, where he finally held the position of deputy undersecretary of state. He was one of the close collaborators of Kjell-Olof Feldt, the then Minister of Finance, and was seen as a member of the right-wing of the Swedish Social Democratic party. He has from 1994 been the chief economist of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, the largest bank in Scandinavia.

His many publications include the textbook Vår ekonomi. En introduktion till samhällsekonomin ("Our Economy: An Introduction to Economics"), first published in 1987, in its 10th revised edition 2004. It is commonly used in courses in economics and economic history in Swedish universities and has been translated into several languages, including Russian and Chinese. Apart from economic publications, he has written the political thriller Läckan ("The Leak", 1990) which was made into a TV series, broadcast on Swedish national television in 1994.

His elder son Sigge Eklund is a novelist, and his younger son is Fredrik Eklund, a businessman and former porn actor who has published a novel in 2005.