Wahlström, Per E.

Per Wahlström was a member of the IK Foundation & Company for more than ten years. With his background in agronomy and economics, which he studied at the University of Agronomy, Uppsala, he had early associations with natural farming which in Linnaeus' time was referred to as "oeconomie". His professional career was mainly spent as an international industrialist, however, not infrequently with companies at the cutting edge within medicine and environmental technology.

RENAISSANCE MAN
Nature and its elements were of great importance to Per Wahlström, preferably seen holistically - culture and nature. The interdisciplinary outlook and modern working methods, anchored in practicality and reality together with demands for high quality, which permeates the IK Foundation's operations, attracted Per greatly. With his direct and honest manner and his well-grounded ideas, he brought to the IK Foundation fresh competence and networks of great significance.

He was one of the group who initiated the monumental task of publishing The Linnaeus Apostles - Global Science & Adventure. Fascinated by the apostles and the "Human spirit" which was central to their achievements, Per considered it important not only to document this but also to pass it on to modern man and to different cultures all over the world.

As with any project of this size, there are always problems which have to be solved, and however difficult they have been over time, Per always adopted a positive and realistic attitude to new and innovative solutions, often with a liberating laugh!

DEDICATION
His far too untimely death after a period of illness meant that he was unable to experience the finished publication, nor will he be able to join in the IK Foundation's 20 year-jubilee in 2008. The IK Board of Directors and the Ambassadors for the publication of The Linnaeus Apostles - Global Science & Adventure have, therefore, decided to dedicate the publication to his memory as a "True Advocate for Nature and Culture". (http://www.ikfoundation.org/news/pressreleases/perwahlstromobituary.php, 2014-10-09)