Mats Persson (Bankeryd, 1978) is a Swedish consultant resident in the United Kingdom and former advisor of UK prime minister David Cameron on EU affairs.
Mats grew up in Bankeryd, Sweden. He moved at early age to the U.S., where he attended San Diego City College.
He received a B.Sc. from Liberty University in Virginia, United States, where he attended on an athletic scholarship as member of the 2004 Liberty Flames basketball team.
He then moved to London, where he received a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2006.
In January 2007 Persson was hired by the London "think tank" Open Europe as research director. Three years later, in January 2010, he became director of the group. Persson contributed to its rebranding from a UK think tank opposing UK involvement in further EU integration to a European think tank advocating liberal EU wide reforms. To do so Persson recruited a pan-EU staff and co-founded and joining the advisory board of Open Europe Berlin (launched 2012).
He has written and published on a broad range of issues including the eurozone crisis, institutional reform, EU budget, financial regulation, trade policy, German politics and Britain's position in Europe.

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