Lars Püss

Püss previously worked in the financial industry at Handelsbanken, Swedbank and Nordea as an institutional broker and asset manager in Stockholm and Luxembourg, but also as a technical salesperson in the IT industry in Stockholm and London.^[4] He has been a municipal politician in Halmstad and a regional politician in Halland since 2006 and has, among other things, been chairman of the environmental committee, the technology & leisure committee, Halmstads Rådhus AB and vice chairman of the municipal board's urban planning committee.^[5]

During the 2014–2018 term of office, Püss served as a substitute in the Riksdag on two occasions, and was then a deputy member of the Committee on the Labour Market, the Committee on Defence, and the Committee on Health and Welfare. From the 2018 election, he served as a deputy member of the Defense Committee.^[6] Since 2019, he has also been a member of the War Delegation and the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority's Transparency Council. In December 2019, Püss switched from the Defense Committee to the Committee on Education.^[7] In May 2020, Püss took a seat on the Transparency Council of the Swedish Schools Inspectorate. In January 2022, Püss switched from the Education Committee to the Committee on Civil Affairs. He has been a member of the Committee on Defence. He has been a member of the Export Control Council [sv]^[8] under the National Inspectorate of Strategic Products and the Swedish Customs and Excise Authority's Transparency Council since 2023.