Ph.D. Karin Kock (Kock-Lindberg)

Title: Ph.D.
Prename: Karin
Surname: Kock (Kock-Lindberg)
Profession: Economist; professor; politician
Birthday: 07/02/1891
Place of birth: Stockholm
Date of death: 07/28/1976
Place of death: Stockholm
Married to: Hugo Lindberg
Education: University studies (economics) in Stockholm; 1929 doctorate
Career: 1933–45 lecturer; 1945 professor of economics, Stockholm; 1947–49 member of the Swedish government; 1950–57 general director of the Swedish National Statistical Office
Memberships: Swedish Federation of University Women; 1916–32 chair of the Swedish University Women’s Club; 1939–45 International Federation of University Women (IFUW) vice president; 1956 American Statistical Association; 1958 International Statistical Institute
Biographical literature: Ingvar Ohlsson, “Karin Kock, 1891–1976,” *International Statistical Review* 45 (1977), no. 1: 109; “Karin Kock,” *Nationalencyklopedin* (1993), vol. 11, 145; Kirsti Niskanen, *Karriär i männens värld. Feministen och ekonomen Karin Kock* (Stockholm: SNS, 2007, with an English summary)
Major works: *A Study of Interest Rates* (London: P.S. King & Son, 1929); *International Trade Policy and the GATT* (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1969)