Career
Lindblad has chaired the Swedish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) and served as Vice President of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe as well as chair of the Political Affairs Committee. In October 2011, he was elected President of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience. Göran Lindblad has advocated a more humane refugee and migration policy, and is involved in charitable work to improve conditions for refugees.
Lindblad is known internationally for his work to promote democracy and human rights.
He served as the Council of Europe rapporteur on crimes of totalitarian communist regimes. As such, he drafted and championed the resolution Need for international condemnation of crimes of totalitarian communist regimes, which led to the Council of Europe resolution 1481.
By profession, Lindblad is a dentist, graduating at Gothenburg University in 1977. He was Vice President of the National Union of Students 1976-1977.