Stig Svante Stockselius (; born 31 December 1955) is a Swedish

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and television executive. He was the executive supervisor of the

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from to and the

Junior Eurovision Song Contest The Junior Eurovision Song Contest, often known simply as Junior Eurovision, is an international children's Music competition, song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) among its members since 2003. Each part ...

from to .

Early life and career

Svante Stockselius grew up in Ockelbo, a small town in central Sweden. He started his career as a journalist. For 16 years, he worked for the

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-based evening newspaper ''

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''. As head of the entertainment division of the Swedish

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company

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from the late 1990s, he worked for the

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, held in

. He was also the architect of a major revamp of the Swedish ESC qualification competition,

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, in

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, introducing four semi-finals and a Second Chance round preceding the finals. That same year, he went on to work for the commercial Swedish television channel TV4. After in , Stockselius was asked by the Estonian television channel

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to take part in the preparations for the 2002 event. In 2003 he was offered the job as executive supervisor for the Eurovision Song Contest, a position he would hold until 30 August 2010, when it was announced that he would be resigning after the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010 to "give others the opportunity to take the event to the next level". In November 2010, Norwegian television executive Jon Ola Sand was appointed his successor in the role.

References

External links

Interview with Svante Stockselius
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esctoday.com
(2006)
"Svante Stockselius är chef för hela ESC"
- Interview with Finnish television company

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