Johnny Munkhammar
Johnny Mattias Munkhammar was a Swedish political writer and blogger.
He was an entrepreneur and author of several books. Until he died, he was a member of parliament in Sweden for the Moderate Party.
Previously, he worked for the free market think tank Timbro. He previously worked as a senior adviser at the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise.
Munkhammar was born in Hultsfred in Kalmar County, but grew up in Visby on Gotland. He received a master's degree in political sciences from Uppsala University in 1998. He has worked as an editorial writer at papers such as Nerikes Allehanda och Gotlands Tidningar.
Munkhammar was a board member of the Liberal Youth of Sweden, the youth wing of the Liberal People's Party, from 1996 to 1999. He ran as a candidate for the party in the 1995 and 1999 elections to the European Parliament. During the 2003 euro referendum in Sweden he was a leading campaigner on the pro-euro side.
Munkhammar expressed support to work politically for personal liberty, a free economy, open borders and limited government.
He died of adenoid cystic cancer on 13 August 2012 at the age of 37.
