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Lars Christian Engstrm is a Swedish computer programmer, activist and politician. He is deputy chairman of the Swedish Pirate Party. Engstrm was elected a Member of the European Parliament in the 2009 election.

Christian Engstrm was born in Hgalid, Stockholm. He graduated from Stockholm University in 1983 with a degree in mathematics and computer science. While studying, Engstrm worked as a tutor at the university, teaching objectoriented programming in Simula. From 1978 he also worked parttime as a programmer at Skriptor, a small company which specialized in phonetic similarity searches for trademark names. After finishing his studies he started working fulltime at the company. He became a partner in the firm in 1987 and in 1991 he became vice president. In 1997 the company was sold to the leading European trademark search house CompuMark. Engstrm stayed on in a similar capacity as before until 2001, when he left the company to set up his own consultancy firm Glindra AB.

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