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Tord Gösta Fredrik Edström (15 July 1901 – 6 August 2000) was a Swedish forester and founder of Södra.

In 1938, he was a driving force in merging five forest owner associations in southern Sweden into the Association of Southeast Swedish Forest Owners' Associations, which was the beginning of what eventually became Södra. He was then for thirty years CEO of a fast growing company, which after further mergers in 1964 became Södra.

Gösta Edström left the executive leadership in 1968 to become the chairman, a position he held until 1973. During his time the company grew into one of Sweden’s major forest industry companies with pulp mills, sawmills, and other wood industries. He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry in 1960 and received the Carl Bernadotte Prize in 1965 for his contributions to forestry.