Fredrik Wetterqvist

Fredrik Wetterqvist (born 20 September 1965 in Uppsala) is a Swedish diplomat and music administrator.

Fredrik Wetterqvist has been the Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music since 2017. Previously he was active as a diplomat at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, where he worked on questions related to the press, culture, and communication, as well as security policy. From 1998 to 2002 Wetterqvist was the First Secretary at the Swedish Embassy in Ottawa, and from 1995 to 1997, the Second Secretary at the Swedish Embassy in Tallinn.

From 2012 to 2016 Wetterqvist was the chair of Music Promotion Council at the Swedish Performing Rights Society (STIM). He also co-authored the Government Inquiry into International Cultural Relations, and was an expert for the Government Inquiry into Literature, “The Culture of Reading”