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In 1993 Hökmark established the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation with international activities to support the development of democracy and rule of law in former dictatorships, which he chaired until 2000. Among other things, he was elected Vice-Chairman of the EPP Group in the European Parliament in January 2007, a position he held until 2014.
Hökmark was elected to the Swedish Parliament in 1982.
He was the leader of the Swedish delegation to the EPP and active in the Committee of Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee of Industry, Energy and Research. He was for many years vice-president of the EPP Group and responsible for legislation regarding the banking crisis and the foundations of the banking union, telecom and spectrum policy, as well as research policy and energy markets.
In 1982, Hökmark was elected into the Swedish Parliament where he was the spokesman of privacy policy, energy policy and economic affairs, as well as President of the Standing Committee on Constitutional Affairs. He was responsible for the process of the Moderate Party joining the European People’s Party as full member.
During the years as Secretary General, he was member of the steering committee of the European Democrat Union before the merger with EPP.
Subsequently he was Member of the Political Bureau, representing the Moderate Party, and was also member of the committee preparing the EPP election manifesto for the European elections in 2004.
Besides regular coordination of politics, organization and campaign he expanded the international activities and in 1993 he took the initiative to establish the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation with international activities to support the development of democracy and rule of law in former dictatorships, which he chaired until 2000.
He also introduced a number of new fund-raising schemes.
As Secretary General he was a leading spokesman for centre-right policy in the Swedish public debate.
In 2000 he left his office as Secretary General and took the initiative to establish the think-tank Institute of Reform, where he was managing director, with a clear agenda to prepare policies for a shift of government after the general elections 2002, policies that could not be launched as the Social Democrats stayed in power.
2002 he became President of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs in the Swedish Parliament, a position he held till being elected Member of the European Parliament in 2004.
From 2003-2012 Gunnar Hökmark was Chairman of the Sweden-Israel Friendship Association and between 2006-2011 he was Chairman of European Friends of Israel.
He continues to be active in the European Alliance for Holocaust Survivors, an alliance he has formerly served as Chair.
Gunnar Hökmark
Gunnar Hökmark has for the last 15 years been a Member of the European Parliament and Head of the Swedish EPP delegation. For this this initiative, Hökmark was awarded Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian orders.
He did also succeed in getting Sweden two more seats in the European parliament 2009, defending them 2014 when Croatia had entered and getting one more 2019 after the brexit referendum.
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Gunnar Hökmark is the chairman of the Swedish think tank Stockholm Free World Forum and is an active opinion leader regularly writing for Swedish newspapers.
He also saw to a number of market-oriented reforms of the Telecom market were adopted, meaning more competition, better capacities and increased speeds.
He was responsible for a long series of Banking legislation; the Banking Recovery and Resolution Directive(BRRD) that became a cornerstone for the Single Rule Book and for the Banking Union, for the proposal of separation of Banks (BSR) where he turned the majority in EP to say no to the breaking up of stable banks with more than one leg, Commission later withdraw the proposal in line with Hökmarks recommendation, BRRDII, The Hierarchy and SRM, which together came to form the base for making the European Stability Mechanism to the backstop of the Banking Union.
In a number of legislations, he succeeded to reform energy markets in a more competitive way, with requirements on separation between producers and distributors as well as the need for market prices and competition.
In the Parliament, he was the spokesman on privacy policy, energy policy and economic affairs, as well as President of the Standing Committee on Constitutional Affairs.
From 1991 until 2000 he was Secretary General of the Moderate Party.
In 1979 he was elected Chairman of the Moderate Youth, a position he held till 1984. He stayed with Unilever until 1980, when he took over the chairmanship of the Moderate Youth.
In 1984 he joined the consultancy company KREAB, parallel to his parliamentary duties, where he prepared the introduction of a computer-based information network, connecting business organizations, think tanks and commercial companies with electronic mail and media analysis.
For his support he was awarded with Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian orders. From 2009-2013 Mr Hökmark was the Chairman of the Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee.
In European Parliament Gunnar Hökmark was responsible for a number of important reports that later became laws in the European union.
The Spectrum programme 2012 became fundamental for the phasing out of roaming-fees, as he doubled the proposed target for allocated spectrum for mobile broadband and succeeded to get this through in negotiations with the member states.
In 2004 he was elected into the European Parliament.
Mr Hökmark led the Swedish European Union membership referendum campaign while serving as the Secretary General of the moderate party (1991-2000), and was responsible for the process of the Moderate Party joining the European People’s Party as full member.
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Gunnar Hökmark
Gunnar Hökmark is the chairman of the Swedish think tank Stockholm Free World Forum.
In 1989 he started the so-called Monday movement, a popular movement supporting the independence of the Baltic States, which today is manifested by a monument in Stockholm. Mr Hökmark was also instrumental in the enlargement process and in the cooperation with the Eastern Partnership.
Before his time in Brussels, Mr Hökmark was a Member of the Swedish Parliament for more than 20 years and Party Secretary for nearly 10 years.
Gunnar Hökmark is today, among other things, Chairman of the foreign policy think tank Stockholm Free World Forum, and the Swedish Insurance Broker´s Association.
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He is active in the Swedish insurance market as chairman of the Swedish Brookers Association and the companies InsureSec and InsureEd as well as vice chair of Dina Försäkringar AB.Since August 2019 he is International Senior Adviser to Kreab Worldwide.
Education
After having finished a B.A. in Business Administration and Economics in 1975 he joined Swedish Unilever 1976 as trainee and became product manager 1977.
He also writes in a number of Swedish newspapers on a regular basis and is a member of the European Leadership Network (ELN). Hökmark completed a BA in business administration and economics at Lund University in 1975, after which he joined Swedish Unilever 1976 as trainee and became product manager 1977. In 2013, he was also awarded with the Georgian Order of Excellence, for his support for freedom and democracy in the country.
In 1991 he left Timbro to become Secretary General of the Moderate Party but remained as a director of the board until 1994.
He was the Secretary General of the Moderate Party between 1991 and 2000, during which time he led a number of election campaigns as well as the referendum campaign about Sweden’s membership in the European Union.