Bertil Ohlin

Bertil Ohlin
Minister of Commerce and Industry
In office 1944–1945
Prime Minister	Per Albin Hansson
Preceded by	Herman Eriksson
Succeeded by	Gunnar Myrdal
Leader of the People's Party
In office 1944–1967
Preceded by	Gustaf Andersson
Succeeded by	Sven Wedén
Member of the Swedish Parliament for Stockholm Municipality
In office 1938–1970
President of the Nordic Council
In office 1959–1959
Preceded by	Nils Hønsvald
Succeeded by	Gísli Jónsson
In office 1964–1964
Preceded by	Nils Hønsvald
Succeeded by	Sigurður Bjarnason
Personal details
Born	Bertil Gotthard Ohlin (1899-04-23)23 April 1899 Klippan, Sweden
Died	3 August 1979(1979-08-03) (aged 80) Åre, Sweden
Political party	People's Party
Alma mater	Lund University (BA) Stockholm School of Economics (MSc) Harvard University (MA) Stockholm University (PhD)
Known for	Heckscher–Ohlin model Heckscher–Ohlin theorem
Awards	Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1977)
Scientific career
Fields	Economics
Institutions	University of Copenhagen (1925–1930) Stockholm School of Economics (1930–1965)
Doctoral advisor	Gustav Cassel

Bertil Gotthard Ohlin (Swedish: [ˈbæ̌ʈːɪl ʊˈliːn]) (23 April 1899 – 3 August 1979) was a Swedish economist and politician. He was a professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics from 1929 to 1965. He was also leader of the People's Party, a social-liberal party which at the time was the largest party in opposition to the governing Social Democratic Party, from 1944 to 1967. He served briefly as Minister of Commerce and Industry from 1944 to 1945 in the Swedish coalition government during World War II. He was President of the Nordic Council in 1959 and 1964.

Ohlin's name lives on in one of the standard mathematical models of international free trade, the Heckscher–Ohlin model, which he developed together with Eli Heckscher. He was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1977 together with the British economist James Meade "for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements".