# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sverker-goranson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:55:38.077Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sverker-goranson"
name: "Sverker Göranson"
slug: "sverker-goranson"
description: "General Sverker John Olof Göranson is a retired Swedish Army officer. Sverkerson was commissioned as an officer in 1977. During the 1990s, Göranson embarked on an international career. He completed the Swedish National Defence College's Command Course and attended several courses in international humanitarian law before relocating to the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. In 1994, he also completed the United Nations Staff Officers Course. Notably, Göranson served as the Chief of Staff in Nordbat 2/BA 05 within the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in Bosnia from 1995 to 1996 and later as the Deputy Battalion Commander in Swebat within the Implementation Force (IFOR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1996. Upon his return to Sweden, Göranson assumed the position of Deputy Brigade Commander at the Scanian Brigade and later became the Brigade Commander of the Life Guards Brigade before taking up the role of Military Attaché and Assistant Defence Attaché in Washington, D.C. He assumed the position of Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces in 2009."
tagline: "Swedish general and supreme commander"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/U.S._Navy_Adm._Mike_Mullen%2C_chairman_of_the_Joint_Chiefs_of_Staff%2C_and_Gen._Sverker_Goranson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
birthDate: "1954-05-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.551981333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump