Hans Colliander

Hans Erland Oskar Colliander (18 April 1924 – 18 October 2013), was a Swedish diplomat.

Early life
Colliander was born on 18 April 1924 in Uppsala, Sweden, the son of senior librarian Elof Colliander and his wife Harriet (née Lejdström). He received a Candidate of Law degree from Uppsala University in 1946 and a diploma from the Stockholm School of Economics in 1949 before he took up employment at Skandinaviska Banken in 1949.

Career
Colliander became an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1950 and served in Washington, D.C. and Paris from 1952 to 1957. He then served at the Foreign Ministry from 1957 to 1961, in Moscow from 1961 to 1965 and again at the Foreign Ministry from 1965 to 1969. Colliander was then counsellor in the Swedish delegation in Geneva from 1969 to 1976, director of the Swedish OECD delegation in Paris from 1976 to 1985 and Swedish ambassador in Athens from 1985 to 1989.

He was representative and chairman of the trade and aviation negotiations with various countries and was the chairman of the OECD Steel Commission from 1980 to 1985, and again from 1989. Colliander was also a consultant at the Federation of Swedish Industries (Sveriges Industriförbund) from 1990. Colliander was a board member of the Association for Friends of the Swedish Athens Institute.

Personal life
Colliander was married from 1950 to 1974 to Kerstin Fredriksson (born 1923). He was then married to Hilda Marti.

Death
Colliander died in 2013 and was buried in Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.