Adolf H. Lundin

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Adolf H. Lundin
Born
Adolf Henrik Lundin

(1932-12-19)19 December 1932
Sweden
Died30 September 2006(2006-09-30) (aged 73)
Lundin Petroleum
SpouseEva Wehtje
Children4 including Lukas Lundin
Ian Lundin

Adolf Henrik Lundin, (19 December 1932 – 30 September 2006),

natural gas fields in Qatar
.

Biography

Early years

Adolf Lundin earned a master's degree in 1956 from the

MBA degree from the Centre d’Etudes Industrielles in Geneva, Switzerland. Between 1961 and 1966 he was responsible for oil exploration activities in the North Sea and Portugal for the Ax:son Johnson Group
. In 1966, he moved with his family to Geneva to work as assistant director of the Centre d’Etudes Industrielles (which later became the International Institute for Management Development).

Adolf's brother Bertil (1946-2005) was head of the

Kontoret för Särskild Inhämtning
(The Office for Special Collection). The KSI is Sweden's most secretive intelligence agency.

Career

In 1971, he started his career as an independent oil and mining entrepreneur on a global scale. His first successful venture was

North Gas Field, offshore Qatar
- this field remains today as the single largest known gas accumulation in the world.

Lundin was an ardent

election campaign. Lundin and his wife Eva were invited to the Reagan inauguration in 1981. The program included an inauguration party with Frank Sinatra that the couple watched from the front row.[2]

He founded Lundin Mining in 1994.[3]

In 1998, he was named

Lundin Petroleum
.

In 2002, he received an honorary doctorate from

Vostok Nafta Investment Ltd and a director of North Atlantic Natural Resources AB, Atacama Minerals Corp., Champion Resources Inc., South Atlantic Ventures Ltd, Tenke Mining Corp. and Valkyries Petroleum Corp.

Adolf Lundin died in 2006, aged 73, from leukemia. He and his wife, Eva Wehtje, whom he married in 1957, had four children. His Lundin Group, continued by his sons Lukas Lundin and Ian Lundin. They have invested considerable resources in rebranding the Lundin Group to make it more socially acceptable. They started a philanthropic operation, "Lundin for Africa Foundation", and proclaimed in 2007 to donate $100 million to the Clinton Foundation.[5][2]

Books

  • Adolf H. Lundin: Biography by ULF Lundin Petroleum Giraffetink
  • Lundell, Kerstin (2010). Affärer i blod och olja : Lundin Petroleum i Afrika (in Swedish) ([Ny utg.] ed.). Stockholm: Ordfront.
    ISBN 9789174410198
    .     (Business in Blood and Oil: Lundin Petroleum in Africa)

External links

References

  1. ^ Hellberg, Anders (September 30, 2006). "Oljemagnaten Adolf Lundin är död" (in Swedish). Dagens Nyheter.
  2. ^ a b Lundin may have led Bildt to the heart of darkness, The Local, 22 December 2011
  3. ^ Company History Lunding mining. Investors
  4. ^ "Swedish oil bosses quizzed in six-year human rights probe". The Local. 2016-11-28. Retrieved 2022-01-19.
  5. ^ Lundin Group Commits $100 Million to Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative, 6 July 2007
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