Dan Eliasson

Dan Eliasson
Eliasson at an interview during the Almedalen Week, 2016
Director-General at the Ministry of Justice (Division for Crisis Preparedness)
In office 7 January 2021 – 31 December 2022
Director-General of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency
In office 5 March 2018 – 7 January 2021
National Police Commissioner of the Swedish Police Authority
In office 1 January 2015 – 5 March 2018
Director-General of the Swedish Social Insurance Agency
In office October 2011 – 1 January 2015
Director-General of the Swedish Migration Agency
In office 2007–2011
Acting Chief of the Swedish Security Service
In office 2006–2007
Personal details
Born	14 August 1961 Sundsvall, Sweden
Political party	Social Democrats
Education	Law
Alma mater	Uppsala University
Occupation	Civil servant

Dan Tore Eliasson (born 14 August 1961 in Sundsvall) is a Swedish lawyer and civil servant. He served as Director–General of the Swedish Migration Agency from 2007 to 2011, as Director–General of the Swedish Social Insurance Agency from 2011 to 2014, as National Police Commissioner from 2014 to 2018 and as Director–General of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) from 2018 until his dismissal in 2021. After his dismissal in 2021, he was placed as Director-General of the Division of Crisis Preparedness of the Ministry of Justice until the end of 2022.

He was appointed National Police Commissioner by the Minister for Home Affairs in November 2014 and began serving on 1 January 2015. Eliasson is a graduate of law at Uppsala University. He has also served as ambassador and Chief of International Affairs at the Ministry of Justice from 1999–2001, as State Secretary under the Minister for Justice Thomas Bodström from 2001–2006 and as acting head of the Swedish Security Service in 2006.^[1][2][3]