Timbro
Sign in to saveTimbro is a liberal think tank and publishing company located in Stockholm, Sweden. In its present form Timbro was founded in 1978 by Sture Eskilsson and the Swedish Employers’ Association, a precursor to the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise. Since 2003, Timbro is being financed by the . Timbro has also maintained close international ties with organisations such as the Atlas Network, and has received external funding from actors including Pfizer and ExxonMobil. In 2013, the foundation received a renewed financial commitment from the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise to ensure its long-ter
Key dates
- Inception
- 1978
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- Instance of
- think tank
- Country
- Sweden
- Headquarters
- Stockholm
- Official website
- timbro.se
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9 sectionsContents
- History
- Book publishing and education
- Funding and international affiliations
- People
- People currently working at Timbro
- Chief executive officers
- See also
- References
- External links
Timbro is a liberal think tank and publishing company located in Stockholm, Sweden. In its present form Timbro was founded in 1978 by Sture Eskilsson and the Swedish Employers’ Association, a precursor to the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise. Since 2003, Timbro is being financed by the . Timbro has also maintained close international ties with organisations such as the Atlas Network, and has received external funding from actors including Pfizer and ExxonMobil. In 2013, the foundation received a renewed financial commitment from the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise to ensure its long-term existence.
Timbro has economically liberal and free market leanings; its mission is to promote every individual's right to self-empowerment, and the ideas that individual freedom precedes economic equality, and that political power of the government over individuals and businesses should be minimized. Timbro is a member of EPICENTER, a network of European free market think tanks.