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Organisation

Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY) has about 150 employees, most of whom are lawyers. Our organisation reflects our areas of operations and the way we work.

Our units

Eric Leijonram

Areas of responsibility

  • that the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection’s regulations and decisions are legal, consistent and uniform
  • legal support for the activity
  • EU cooperation and other international work

Head of Unit

David Törngren

Data Protection Officer

Sigrid Bohnfeldt Boje, dso[at]imy.se

Areas of responsibility

  • Strategic management and development

Head of Unit

Karin Lönnheden


The Department for Enterprise

Head of department: Malin Blixt

Head of Unit

Eva Bergholm Guhnby

Head of unit 

Albin Brunskog


 

Head of unit

Nidia Nordenström

Head Of Unit

Catharina Fernquist

Responsibility for coordination

  • Information Security
  • The Authority's Supervision Process

Head of Unit

Christelle Bourquin


The department for Public Operations

Head of department: Charlotte Waller Dahlberg

Areas of responsibility

  • The Camera Surveillance Act
  • Permit examination
  • Complaints
  • Supervision

Head of unit

Jenny Bård

Areas of responsibility

The unit is responsible for questions about data protection and personal data processing linked to the areas:

  • All public activities except those within the judiciary and defence, as well as the Swedish Migration Agency
  • Private activities relating to health care, education and research
  • Working life issues for both public and private businesses

Head of unit

Linn Sandmark

Areas of responsibility

The unit is responsible for questions about data protection and personal data processing linked to the areas:

  • All public activities except those within the judiciary and defence, as well as the Swedish Migration Agency
  • Private activities relating to health care, education and research
    Working life issues for both public and private businesses
  • The authority's external whistle-blowing reporting channel

Acting head of unit

Evelin Palmér

Areas of responsibility

  • Law enforcement
  • Judicial operations
  • Prisons and probation
  • Defence and foreign intelligence activities
  • The Swedish Migration Agency

Responsibility for coordination

  • Personal data officers

Head Of Unit

Jonas Agnvall

 

The department for Operational Support

Head of department: vacant

Areas of responsibility

• IT
• Digitalization
• Security
• Total Defence and Emergency Preparedness
• Crisis Management

IT and Security Manager

Joakim Nyberg (including Protective security manager)

Areas of responsibility

  • Registry and post
  • Archive and information management
  • Administrative support to director-general and other units
  • Office administration
  • Property management
  • Reception

Head of Administration

Marita Öberg

Areas of responsibility

  • Economy
  • HR
  • Purchasing and Procurements

Deputy Head of Unit

Ingela Johansson

Areas of responsibility

  • Internal and External Communication
  • Media and Public Relations
  • Education
  • External analysis

Deputy Chief Communications Officer

Marita Öberg

 

IMY:s transparency council

IMY is a so-called "enrådighetsmyndighet" ("enrådighet" within authorities means that the Director-General alone makes the decisions) with a transparency council that oversees the authority's work. The transparency council has the following members:

Eric Leijonram
IMY's Director-General,
chair of the transparency council since October 2024

Peter Hedberg
Member of Parliament (s)

Åke Holmgren
Head of department Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency

Linn Kempe
General Counsel Agency for Digital Government

Jonas Ledendal
researcher senior lecturer Lund University

Kristoffer Löfblad
Member of Parliament (sd)

Simona Mohamsson
The Liberals (l)

Susanne Nordström
Member of Parliament (m)

Ari Stenman
Head of Security, The Swedish Police  

About the information on this page

If the information in English is different from the Swedish version of this page, the Swedish version applies.

Latest update: 2 October 2024
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