Pär Nuder

His political path began in the local Swedish Social Democratic Youth League club. From 1986 to 1989, he was the chairman of the Stockholm County branch of the organisation and from 1987 to 1990 he was a member of the national board. At the same time he was a member of the Österåker municipal executive committee, from 1982 to 1994. In 1986, he started his career as a political adviser, first to the minister for justice (before being forced to resign in October 1987 as a result of the political fallout of the Soviet spy Stig Bergling's escape from custody) and later to the prime minister, first to Ingvar Carlsson, and to his successor, Göran Persson. For a few years he also worked as a political secretary to the Social Democratic parliamentary party group. In 1994, he was elected a member of parliament.

In 1997, he was offered the position of state secretary in the prime minister's office. Although he was more or less unknown to the general public at the time, he was generally believed to be Persson's close ally and one of his personal favourites to succeed him as party leader and prime minister. This impression was trengthened by Persson's move to let Nuder join his cabinet as minister for policy co-ordination in 2002, an influential behind-the-scenes post. When Marita Ulvskog stepped down as minister for culture in September 2004, he took over the portfolio, although it was explicitly stated that this was not a long-term solution. The prime minister's intentions instead became public on 21 October 2004, when Persson announced a restructuring of his government in which Nuder was to take over as minister of finance after Bosse Ringholm.

Responding to media questions on whether his plan was to be the next prime minister, he simply answered that he did not "think about it" and was concentrating on his tasks as minister of finance. He also restated the government's goal to reduce the rate of open unemployment below four percent again.

During a speech in December 2004, he introduced the controversial term köttberg (mountain of meat) to describe the

During early 2008, he lost his position as Social Democratic candidate for finance minister due to quarrels with party leader

Private sector

Nuder is currently^[when?] the chairman of the Third National Pension Fund (AP3) and a board member of several companies in Sweden. He is a senior counselor of the strategy firm Albright Stonebridge Group, advising clients on financial trends and providing strategic advice to clients seeking to enter the European market. He is an advisor to the private-equity fund EQT and several other Nordic companies and a member of the President's Advisory Council, Tokyo University.

He is a columnist at the business newspaper Dagens industri and has written an autobiography called Stolt men inte nöjd: en kärleksförklaring till politiken.^{[citation needed]}

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