Erik Martin Lakomaa is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 political consultant known for his role as strategist for the no-campaign in the 2003 Swedish referendum on the euro

Euro

The euro is the official currency of the eurozone: 17 of the 27 member states of the European Union. It is also the currency used by the Institutions of the European Union. The eurozone consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,...

. He has also advised a number of centre-right politicians, most notably Lars Wohlin

Lars Wohlin

Lars Magnus Wohlin is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament. He was elected into the European Parliament as a member of the June List, but later joined Kristdemokraterna....

 and Nils Lundgren

Nils Lundgren

Nils Gustav Herman Lundgren is a Swedish politician, economist, eurosceptic and former Member of the European Parliament. He was the leader of the eurosceptical June List, which he also co-founded....

. In 2005 he was awarded the Rising Star Award as the best young political consultant outside the United States.

Lakomaa begun his career as editorial writer for the conservative news paper Svenska Dagbladet

Svenska Dagbladet

Svenska Dagbladet is a daily newspaper in Sweden. The first issue appeared on 18 December 1884. Svenska Dagbladet is published in Stockholm and provides coverage of national and international news as well as local coverage of the Greater Stockholm region...

 and he also edited the libertarian magazine Nyliberalen. In 2004 he founded the first political consultancy in Sweden. In March 2009 the newspaper Dagens Nyheter

Dagens Nyheter

is a daily newspaper in Sweden. It has the largest circulation of Swedish morning newspapers, followed by Göteborgs-Posten and Svenska Dagbladet, and is the only morning newspaper that is distributed to subscribers across the whole country. In 2009 DN had a circulation of 316,000, reaching 881...

 revealed that he was one of the organizers of the anti FRA

FRA

Fra is a variant of Friar.FRA may refer to:* Forward Rate Agreement , a financial instrument* Federal Railroad Administration, a division of the United States Department of Transportation...

-surveillance

Surveillance

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 law grassroots campaign the year before.

Lakomaa is a graduate from Stockholm University

Stockholm University

Stockholm University is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. It has over 28,000 students at four faculties, making it one of the largest universities in Scandinavia. The institution is also frequently regarded as one of the top 100 universities in the world...

 and a Ph D from Stockholm School of Economics

Stockholm School of Economics

The Stockholm School of Economics or Handelshögskolan i Stockholm is one of Northern Europe's leading business schools. Its Masters in Management program is ranked no. 2 in Northern Europe and no. 13 in Europe by the Financial Times...

, where he also is an assistant professor at the Department of Marketing and Strategy . He has been expert in two government studies on the School System.

Lakomaa is a four-time Jeopardy champion.

He is the grandson of Finnish aircraft designer Aarne Lakomaa.