Mats Olof Pertoft (born 1954) is a Swedish politician and former member of the Riksdag, the national legislature. A member of the Green Party, he represented Stockholm County between October 2006 and October 2010 and between September 2011 and September 2014.[2] He was also a substitute member of the Riksdag for Annika Hirvonen twice: between December 2015 and August 2016; and between October 2017 and April 2018.[2][3][4]
Pertoft is the son of engineer Curt Pertoft and archivist Maj-Britt Pertoft (née Walldén).[2] He was educated in Frankfurt in West Germany and in Gränna.[2] He studied sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt and Eurythmy at Rudolf Steiner University College.[2] He was a port worker in Gothenburg (1979-1981), a substitute teacher (1980-1981), a teacher in Järna (1985-1986), a eurythmy teacher in Stockholm (1986-1990), a teacher and finance manager in Järna (1990-1997) and a finance manager in Ängsholm, Mörkö (1997-2000).[2] He was appointed as a political advisor to the Prime Minister's Office (Statsrådsberedningen) in 2016.[2] He was a member of the municipal council in Södertälje Municipality from 1994 to 2009.[2] Hee was a member of the county council in Stockholm County from 1998 to 2002.[2]
