Tobias Thyberg

Olof Tobias Sebastian Thyberg (born 12 September 1975) is a Swedish diplomat who served as National Security Advisor to the Government of Sweden from 8 to 9 May 2025.^[1] He resigned within 12 hours after his pictures from Grindr had surfaced.^[2] He was Ambassador of Sweden to Ukraine from 2019 to 2023.^[3]

Tobias Thyberg
Thyberg in 2019
National Security Advisor to the Government of Sweden
In office 8 May 2025 – 9 May 2025
Prime Minister	Ulf Kristersson
Preceded by	Annika Brändström (acting)
Succeeded by	Annika Brändström (acting)
Ambassador of Sweden to Ukraine
In office August 2019 – August 2023
Preceded by	Martin Hagström
Succeeded by	Martin Åberg
Personal details
Born	(1975-09-12) 12 September 1975 (age 49) Stockholm, Sweden
Alma mater	Uppsala University (M.Sc.) Stockholm School of Economics (M.Sc.)

Biography

Tobias Thyberg was born in Stockholm on 12 September 1975.

He holds an M.Sc. in political science from the Uppsala University and an M.Sc. in international economics from the Stockholm School of Economics. He speaks Swedish, English, Russian, French, Spanish and German.

Tobias Thyberg is a career diplomat who served as Ambassador of Sweden to Afghanistan until August 2019. His previous diplomatic postings include Swedish missions in New Delhi, Moscow, Washington, D.C., as well as the Swedish Representation to the European Union in Brussels and the Delegation of the European Union to Georgia.

On 8 May 2025, he was appointed as National Security Advisor to the Government of Sweden, but resigned 12 hours later on 9 May after sensitive pictures of him on the dating app Grindr were anonymously sent to the government.^[2]

Personal life

Thyberg lives in central Stockholm with his husband Florian Fuckner, a German citizen.^[4]