Carl Tham

{{Short description|Swedish politician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|image=File:Carl_Tham,_September_2011.jpg

|office=Ambassador of Sweden to Germany

|term_start=2002

|term_end=2006

|office1=Education Minister

|term_start1=1994

|term_end1=1998

|office2=Director-general of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

|term_start2=1985

|term_end2=1994

|office3=Director-general of the State Energy Agency

|term_start3=1983

|term_end3=1985

|office4=Minister for Energy

|term_start4=1978

|term_end4=1979

|birth_date={{birth date and age|1939|07|05|df=y}}

|party=Liberal People's Party
Social Democrat

}}

Carl Gustav Wilhelm Tham (born 5 July 1939) is a Swedish politician. Until 1984, he was a member of Liberal People's Party, and since 1986, he is a Social Democrat.{{Cite web|url=http://www.timbro.se/bokhandel/rapport/fulltext/r1694.htm#FOOTNOTE_54|title=Rapport: Carl Tham – Ett porträtt|language=Swedish|accessdate=25 September 2015|work=Timbro|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926031037/http://www.timbro.se/bokhandel/rapport/fulltext/r1694.htm#FOOTNOTE_54|archive-date=26 September 2015|url-status=dead}}

He was Party secretary in the Liberal People's Party from 1969 to 1978. He was minister for energy from 1978 to 1979 and member of the Riksdag (parliament) in 1976 and from 1979 to 1980. Then he became director-general of the State Energy Agency (Statens energiverk), a position he held from 1983 to 1985 and of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency from 1985 to 1994. He became education minister in 1994 and served in that capacity until 1998. Between 2002 and 2006, he was the Swedish Ambassador in Berlin. Tham is the only person in modern times who has served in a right/centre government as well as a Social Democratic Government.