Ingemar Ståhl

Ingemar Ståhl (June 2, 1938–February 6, 2014) was a Swedish economist and an economics professor from Lund University.

Ståhl was born on June 2, 1938 in Stockholm, Sweden.

He graduated, with a bachelor degree, in 1958 in the University of Stockholm. He earned his Licentiate of Philosophy in 1965 at the Lund University.

Ståhl was married to Solveig Ståhl, whom he had three children: Nils Ståhl, Pernilla Ståhl, and Ingela Ståhl. He died on February 6, 2014 in Lund, Sweden at the age of 75.

For 25 years, Ståhl was a member of Ragnar Söderberg Foundation, an organization dedicated to scientific researches. Ståhl has also worked as an Advisor to the Cabinet Office of the Government of Sweden and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Since 1982, he was also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Nobel Prize

For his brilliance in Economics, he became part of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel from 1969 until 1984. Being part of the said committee, he was one of the responsible people for proposing laureates for the Prize.

In 2001, he was given an honorary doctorate distinction at the Faculty of Law in Lund University for his achievements in the subject law and economics at the same University.