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Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
About Carl Tham
- Carl Gustav Wilhelm Tham (born 5 July 1939 in Stockholm) is a Swedish politician.
- Until 1984, he was a member of Liberal People's Party, and since 1986, he is a Social Democrat.He was Party secretary in the Liberal People's Party from 1969 to 1978.
- He was Minister for Energy from 1978 to 1979 and member of the Riksdag (parliament) in 1976 and from 1979 to 1980.
- Then he became Director-general of the State Energy Agency (Statens energiverk), a position he held from 1983 to 1985 and of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency from 1985 to 1994.
- He became Education Minister in 1994 and served in that capacity until 1998.
- Between 2002 and 2006, he was the Swedish Ambassador in Berlin.
- Tham is the only person in modern times who has served in a right/centre government as well as a Social Democratic Government.
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