Håkan Syrén
| Håkan Syrén | |
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| Born |
31 January 1952 Växjö, Sweden |
| Allegiance | Sweden |
| Service/branch | Swedish Navy |
| Years of service | 1970–2012 |
| Rank | General |
| Commands held | CO of KA 1 Director of MUST Supreme Commander Chairman of EUMC |
| Other work | ADC to His Majesty the King |
General Håkan Erik Gunnar Syrén (born 31 January 1952) is a Swedish Amphibious Corps general and former chairman of the European Union Military Committee. He was the Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces from 1 January 2004 to 25 March 2009, and was the first Supreme Commander to come from the Navy.
Syrén was born in Växjö, Sweden, the son of lieutenant colonel Gunnar Syrén and his wife Siv Syrén. He grew up in Uppsala, where he graduated from Lundellska läroverket in 1970. Syrén studied at the Royal Swedish Naval Academy from which he graduated in 1973.
He was then instructor and platoon commander at the Vaxholm Coastal Artillery Regiment (KA 1) from 1973 to 1979 and studied at the Military Academy Karlberg in from 1980 to 1984. Syrén was a staff officer at the Naval Staff in Stockholm from 1984 to 1988 and was a student at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, USA from 1988 to 1989. Back in Sweden, he was teacher of strategy at the Military Academy Karlberg from 1989 to 1990 and head of the Planning Department at the Navy Staff from 1990 to 1992. Syrén was then commanding officer of the Marine Amphibious Battalion from 1992 to 1994 and commanding officer of the Vaxholm Coastal Artillery Regiment from 1994 to 1996.
Syrén was head of Operations Planning Department at the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters from 1996 to 1998. In 1997 he completed a management course at the Swedish Defence University and in 1999 he completed the Senior International Defence Management Course (SIDMC) at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, USA. Back in Sweden, Syrén served as secretary to the Defence Commission at the Ministry of Defence in 1999 and served as director of the Military Intelligence and Security Service at the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters from 1999 to 2003.
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