Hubert Fromlet

Professor, Jönköping and Linneaus University

Hubert Fromlet is a professor at, Jönköping and Linneaus University. He received his MBA and Ph.D. from the University of Wurzburg. Prior to to this he was chief economist at Swedbank, Stockholm, and professor at Blekinge Institute of Technology. Mr. Fromlet has also served as s chief economist at Co-operative Bank, Stockholm and was responsible for macro research at the SAAB-SCANIA, Sweden.

Hubert Fromlet’s areas of interest and research are:

International economics
Macroeconomic impact from globalization on the corporate level
Global financial markets
Emerging economies with emphasis on countries in the Baltic Sea Region, China and India
Applied growth theory
Interdisciplinary economic research including political, social and psychological input
Monetary policy

Hubert Fromlet arranges economic conferences and invitations to prominent foreign speakers. He currently is a member of several boards of economic associations and editorial boards. In 2001, he received the “Abramson Scroll” in recognition of an outstanding article published in Business Economics (editor National Association for Business Economics, Washington D.C.). He has lectured at various universities in, for example, the United States, Germany and China. Hubert Fromlet comments regularly on current economic issues on TV, radio and in newspapers. He also developed the Purchasing Manager Index (PMI, “Inköpschefsindex”) and the Affordability Index for Home Purchases (“Boindex”) for Sweden.