Tino Sanandaji

Tino Sanandaji (born 17 May 1980 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-Swedish economist and author. He arrived to Sweden in 1989 with his family. He has studied at higher level in both Stockholm and Chicago. Today he lives and works in Stockholm.
Despite having no formal education on the subject, he has become known in Sweden for his blog and criticism of Sweden's immigration and integration policy. In December 2014, Sanandaji started a fundraising with Kickstarter to write a book about Swedish immigration policy - Moral Superpower: A book on immigration. As of August 2016, no book has been released.
Tino Sanandaji was ranked as one of Sweden's 100 most influential opinion leaders in 2014

Tino Sanandaji has an MSc from Stockholm School of Economics, an M.A in economics and a PhD in Public Policy from the University of Chicago.

He works as a researcher in economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. He has authored a number of scholarly articles, with a focus on entrepreneurship and taxation. He has never written a scholarly article on the topic of immigration or integration policy.

Sanandaji has authored three books. Owner taxation and entrepreneurship - on tax theory and the Swedish policy debate (SNS Press, 2004) and Institutional Entrepreneurship (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2012), both coauthored with Magnus Henrekson.

He coauthored the book SuperEntrepreneurs - and how your country can get them (the Centre for Policy Studies, 2014) with his brother Nima Sanandaji. Sanandaji has written several state reports on Swedish tax and entrepreneurship policy, including "Entrepreneurship conditions" for the Experts Group on Public Finance in the Swedish finance ministry. Sanandaji is a regular contributor to National Review and has in addition authored a number of articles in Swedish and American publications, including The American, Wall-Street Journal, Critical Review, The Independent Review and Axess.