Career
He sits in the parliament"s Committee on the Labour Market and is vice-chair of the Committee on European Union Affairs. From 1993 to 1994 he served as an Undersecretary of State at the Swedish Ministry of Finance. Hamilton holds a doctorate in economics from London in 1974.
From 1992 to 1997 he served as a professor in economics at the Stockholm University.
During the mid 90s he worked as chief economist at Handelsbanken. Since 1999 he is a part-time professor in international economics at the Stockholm School of Economics.