Later Life
Ingvar Carlsson was Chairman of the inquiry after the Gothenburg Riots of 2001 to investigate the events. Their report was submitted to the Government on January 14, 2003.
Ingvar Carlsson is head of the United Nations independent Rwanda-commission. He is also chairman of the Bergman Foundation Center on Fåro.
With Shridath Ramphal, he was in 1995 one of the co-chairs of the Commission on Global Governance, which reported on issues of international development, international security, globalization and global governance.
His career has been shaped by the heritage of Olof Palme, with whom he worked closely, but his policies are more seen as being a continuation of the legacy established by Tage Erlander.
Ingvar Carlsson is a big supporter of football teams IF Elfsborg and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Read more about this topic: Ingvar Carlsson
Famous quotes containing the word life:
“Life isnt meant to be easy. Its hard to take being on the topor on the bottom. I guess Im something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things.... Life is one crisis after another.”
—Richard M. Nixon (19131995)
“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)