In 1997, Lyndon L. Olson, Jr. was nominated by President Clinton to be Ambassador to Sweden and went on to serve in this capacity until 2001.

Mr. Olson served as a member of the Texas State House of Representatives from 1973 until 1978. Mr. Olson was chairman of the Texas State Board of Insurance from 1979 until 1981, and from February 1983 until August 1987. He also served as president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners in 1982. He was appointed to the negotiation team on international reinsurance issues at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva, Switzerland in 1987 and lectured to ASEAN Nations in 1985 and 1989 at the United Nations Conferences on Trade and Development, Program of Insurance in Manila. He was one of the negotiators for the United States-Israeli Free Trade Agreement relating to services between the two nations; he led a Trade Delegation on Financial Services to Russia and China in 1985.

Mr. Olson was appointed “The Swedish-American of 2002” by the Vasa Orden of America. The Swedish ties were strengthened in October 2001 when Olson was appointed Honorary Doctor at Umeå University. Ambassador Olson currently serves as chairman of the board of The Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce in New York and the American Scandinavian Foundation.

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