{"id":2074,"date":"2020-04-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2074"},"modified":"2020-06-12T15:29:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T15:29:20","slug":"erik-jean-christian-antoine-belfrage-diplomat-and-businessman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2074","title":{"rendered":"Erik Jean Christian Antoine Belfrage, diplomat and businessman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Erik Jean Christian Antoine Belfrage \u2011 a Swedish diplomat, banking executive, and political consultant \u2011 died at Saint Göran Hospital in Stockholm due to COVID\u201119 on 18 April 2020.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Belfrage was the son of diplomat Kurt-Allan Belfrage and his wife, Renée France Paule Puaux. His brother, Frank Belfrage, is an economist and diplomat. Belfrage graduated from Stockholm School of Economics in 1970.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Belfrage worked in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 1970 to 1987 as a diplomat in Geneva, Washington, D.C., Bucharest, Beirut, and Paris. In 1987, he became vice president at Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken and as an adviser to Investor AB. Belfrage also served as an advisor to Peter Wallenberg and the Wallenberg family between 1987 and 2012.<\/p>\r\n<\/p>

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Erik Jean Christian Antoine Belfrage \u2011 a Swedish diplomat, banking executive, and political consultant \u2011 died at Saint Göran Hospital in Stockholm due to COVID\u201119 on 18 April 2020.   Belfrage was the son of diplomat Kurt-Allan Belfrage and his wife, Renée France Paule Puaux. His brother, Frank Belfrage, is an economist and diplomat. 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