Staffan Burenstam Linder

Hans Martin Staffan Burenstam Linder (born H. M. S. Linder, 13 September 1931 in Norberg, Västmanland, died 22 July 2000 in Djursholm) was a Swedish economist and conservative politician. He was Swedish Minister for Trade from 1976–78 and from 1979-81.

He was the son of forester Martin Linder and of Marianne Linder, née Burenstam. In 1956 he married Marie-Thérèse Dyrssen, who was headmaster of Enskilda Gymnasiet from 1989-2003.

As an adult, Staffan Linder began to use the name Burenstam to preserve this old name of nobility, whose last male bearer, his grandfather Fredrik Burenstam, had died without a male heir in 1949. In the scholarly world, Burenstam Linder is known under the name Linder (e.g. the Linder hypothesis). It wasn't till the 1980s that his family legally changed their name to Burenstam Linder.

During his time as a PhD candidate, he was mainly supervised by Bertil Ohlin. His dissertation in 1961, An Essay on Trade and Transformation, initiated a new model of international trade based on the demand pattern. Linder was a professor of International economics at the from 1974 onwards, as well as the school's rector from 1986 to 1995.

He also was a visiting professor at Columbia University from 1962 to 1963, Yale University in 1966, and Stanford University from 1983 to 1984. He received an honorary doctorate from the Université catholique de Louvain. He was also an economic advisor at from 1965-75. In the period 1993-1995, Burenstam Linder chaired the Steering Committee of the EuroFaculty, which included the as he founded in 1994.

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