For safety’s sake: the strategies of institutional entrepreneurs and bureaucratic reforms in Swedish crisis management, 2001–2009^*

^*The title alludes to Government Bill 2007/08:92 Enhanced emergency preparedness – for safety’s sake, which created the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB).

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Figure 1. Timeline.

Table

Name	Position
Annika Brändström	Analyst at the Ministry of Defence and later at the Government Offices. Head of Department at the Crisis Management Secretariat (current)
Per de la Gardie	Public official, research officer, currently Public Affairs Director at SAAB
Magnus Ek	Employee at MSB, earlier KBM
Ann Louise Eksborg	Chief Legal Officer at the Ministry of Defence. DG at the KBM
Ulrika Gradin	Officer and Head of Department at the Ministry of Defence
Lars Hedström	DG the Swedish Rescue Services Agency and later KBM. Deputy Head of Department at the Crisis Management Secretariat
Kajsa Helmbring	Employee at the Country Administrative Board and later at KBM. Analyst at EBA. Officer at Malmö City. Employee at an NGO. Consultant
Helena Lindberg	Clerical Officer and Chief Legal Officer at the Ministry of Ministry of Defence. GD at the Civil Contingencies Agency
Kjell Mo	Project manager at the Swedish Rescue Services Agency and later at KBM
Åke Pettersson	Research Officer, Special Investigator
Christina Salomonson	First Head of Department, Secretariat for Crisis Management and Special Investigator of the commission of inquiry which resulted in the reform
Sara Sjölund	Analyst at the Defence College. Employee at KBM. Official at the Crisis Management Secretariat
Bengt Sundelius	Political Scientist, Founding member of CRISMART, scientist at MSB
Åke Sundin	Counselor and later Deputy Manager at the Ministry of Defence
Lars-Göran Uddholm	Chief, Södertörn Firefighting Unions
Hans Gustaf Wessberg	State Secretary. (Moderaterna [The Moderate Party])
Björn von Sydow	Defence minister. Parliament Speaker. Parliament member. (The Social Democrats)