Nils Thedin

Nils Thedin
Chairman of UNICEF
In office 1970–1972
Preceded by	İhsan Doğramacı
Succeeded by	Narciso G. Reyes
Personal details
Nationality	Swedish

Nils Emil Thedin (10 March 1911 in Stockholm – 1 February 1989) was a Swedish businessman and civic leader.

Education

Nils Thedin qualified in philosophy in 1934, then worked as a teacher at Vårgårda 1935-1937.

Kooperativa Förbundet

Thedin then secured a position at the International Labor Office in Geneva 1937-1939, then became a member of the Kooperativa Förbundet's (KF) secretariat 1940-1944, editor-in-chief of the organisation's magazine Vi magazine1945-1959, deputy head of KF's organizational department 1958 –1969 and head of KF's publicity department 1963–1969.

International service

From 1951 and from 1947 he was Vice President of the Swedish branch of Save the Children International, then was a board member of the International Cooperative Alliance 1947–1981, concurrently serving as Chairman of UNICEF at the international level from 1970 to 1972.^[1][2]

Thedin joined the board of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency in 1963 and was Chairman of the publishing company Liber from 1964.^[3] He was also Chairman of Sveriges Radio from 1967, chairman of the Correspondence School 1969–1976, for the board of the East Asian Museum 1970–1977, for the Swedish Handicrafts Association 1968–1970, for the Swedish Coop Center 1976–1978, vice-chairman of the Norwegian State Museums of Art 1977–1979, International Union for Child Welfare 1977–1978, chairman of the working committee for International children's year 1978–1979, and project manager for the International Labor Office in Bangkok 1979 -1984.

Publications

Thedin published Råvaruproblemet och freden ('Commodities: The problem in peacetime') in 1944,^[4] and Inlägg. Ledare, porträtt och reseskisser utgivna till författarens femtioårsdag den 10 mars 1961 ('Posts. Editorials, portraits and travel sketches issued for the author's fiftieth birthday, 10 March 1961') in 1961.^[5]

Awards

Thedin was awarded the Illis quorum in 1986 for "long-standing and significant efforts for the world's children".^[6]

Personal life

Nils Thedin married Carin Eberstein, daughter of Gösta Eberstein, in 1942.

References

1. Officers of the UNICEF Executive Board 1946–2014, UNICEF
2. Executive Board, UNICEF
3. "Thedin, Nils E.". Vem är det: Svensk biografisk handbok. 1969. p. 946.
4. Thedin, Nils (1944). Råvaruproblemet och freden (in Swedish). Stockholm: Kooperativa förbundets bokförlag. OCLC 615352015.
5. Thedin, Nils (1961). Inlägg. Ledare, porträtt och reseskisser utgivna till författarens femtioårsdag den 10 mars 1961 (in Swedish). Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren. OCLC 30563695.
6. "Regeringens belöningsmedaljer och regeringens utmärkelse: Professors namn". Regeringskansliet (in Swedish). January 2006. Archived from the original on 2021-11-02. Retrieved 2022-05-18.