Adolf Lundin

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Person.png Adolf LundinRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(businessman)
Born19 December 1932
Died30 September 2006 (Age 73)
NationalitySwedish
SiblingsBertil Lundin

Adolf Henrik Lundin [1] was a Swedish oil and mining entrepreneur. From the 1970s through the 1990s Lundin established numerous natural resource companies both in the mining sector and the oil and gas sector, which in turn made a number of significant discoveries in the Middle East, Africa, Europe and South America.

Connections

He is the brother of Bertil Lundin, leader of the Office for Special Assignments, the most secretive and powerful Swedish intelligence service.

Lundin was an ardent anti-communist. In the United States Lundin was involved with the conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation based in Washington, D.C. (Reagan Doctrine/ Kirkpatrick Doctrine). In 1980, Lundin sponsored Ronald Reagan's election campaign. Lundin and his wife Eva were invited to the Reagan inauguration in 1981. The program included an inauguration party with Frank Sinatra that the couple watched from the front row.[2]

The Lundin Foundation was a major donor to the Clinton Foundation.[3]

Adolf Lundin hired Carl Bildt to the board of his company 2000 and 2006, which led to the former Prime Minister doubling his fortune.[4]


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