Dr. Bo Sundgren

Bo Sundgren was born in Sweden in 1946. He received a PhD in Information Management from Stockholm University in 1973. His doctoral thesis, An Infological Approach to Data Bases [1], introduced the OPR(t) methodology for conceptual modelling of reality and information about reality, as well as the metadata concept, and a methodology for modelling aggregated statistical data by means of multidimensional hypercubes, the alfa-beta-gamma-tau methodology [2].
In 1979 Bo Sundgren was appointed professor of information management at the University of Uppsala [3], where he served until 1982, when he became professor at Linköping University [4]. Between 1987 and 2003 he was professor of information management at Stockholm School of Economics, and then he was offered a position as professor of informatics at Mid Sweden University [5], Department of Information Technology and Media, where he organized research on e-government, e-services, and public information systems. In 2005 he started an open access electronic journal, the International Journal of Public Information Systems (IJPIS) [6]. 2009-2014 Bo Sundgren was guest professor at Stockholm University,Department of Computer and Systems Sciences [7]. Since 2010 he is also guest professor at Dalarna University, and 2011-2015 he served as mentor and senior advisor to the Statistics Department at Stockholm University.
In parallel with his academic career, Bo Sundgren has been employed by Statistics Sweden [8] (1968-2009), where he has served as systems developer, leader of research and development projects, head of the IT Department, and senior advisor to the Director General, a position he had when he retired from Statistics Sweden in 2009.
Over the years, Bo Sundgren has performed a large number of consultancies, both for international organisations and in advanced and less developed countries. 

Links to Bo Sundgren’s website, http://sites.google.com/site/bosundgren/ [9], and to his publications: http://sites.google.com/site/bosundgren/my-life [10]