Claes-Ulrik Winberg

Claes-Ulrik Winberg (23 September 1925 – 31 May 1989) was a Swedish industrialist and business executive. He was CEO of AB Bofors from 1972 to 1984. He was also chairman of the Swedish Iron Industry Association (Swedish: Järnbruksförbundet) from 1978 to 1983 and of the Swedish Employers' Confederation (Swedish: Svenska arbetsgivareföreningen) from 1984 to 1985. Winberg was forced to resign his position as chairman of the Swedish Employers' Confederation in 1984, following the unveiling of the Bofors scandal. Winberg was born in Denmark. He studied at the Royal Naval War Academy (Kungliga Sjökrigsskolan) in the end of the 1940s and graduated as a Master of Engineering in 1952. Thereafter he started a career at several companies in the...