Thomas Östros

In January 2020, Östros was appointed Vice-President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), under the leadership of Werner Hoyer; he succeeded Alexander Stubb.

Östros was appointed CEO of the trade association Swedish Bankers' Association in 2012, a position he resigned from in 2015, only to later be named Executive Director for Nordic and Baltic countries at the IMF.

In 2008 Östros was appointed economic policy spokesperson for his party, following a leadership dispute between his predecessor Pär Nuder and the newly appointed party chairman Mona Sahlin; a post he was forced to resign from in March 2011, coinciding with the ascension of Håkan Juholt as chairman, a candidate he refused to endorse or publicly support. Östros left the party executive committee at about the same time, and subsequently left the Riksdag in July 2012, having spent a total of 17 years as an MP.

In 1994 Östros was elected to the Riksdag as a member of parliament. In 1996, he became the Minister for Taxation at the age of 31, under the Cabinet of Göran Persson, and later served as Minister for Education from 1998 to 2004. In 2004 he switched posts with Leif Pagrotsky and became Minister for Enterprise and Energy, a position he held on to until the Social Democratic defeat at the general elections of 2006. Östros was also the deputy chairman of the Riksdag's committee for Industry and Trade from 2006 to 2008.

Thomas Östros (born 26 January 1965) is a Swedish economist, former Social Democratic politician and CEO of the Swedish Bankers' Association. In 2015 he was named Executive Director for Northern Europe at the International Monetary Fund.