General Authorities and General Officers

General Authority Seventy

Editor's note: Elder Per G. Malm passed away Tuesday, July 26, 2016, after battling cancer.

Elder Per G. Malm was sustained as a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 3, 2010. At the time of his call, he had been serving as a member of the Third Quorum of the Seventy in the Europe Area. He served as the Second Counselor in the Europe East Area Presidency. At the time of his death he was serving at Church headquarters.

Elder Malm ran his own real estate agency for eleven years. He began working for the Church in 1980 as a regional real estate manager. When he left Church employment in 2003, he was a director for temporal affairs and thereafter worked as a business consultant.

Elder Malm received a master’s degree in business and public law from the University of Göteborg in Sweden and a law degree (LLM) from the University of Lund.

Elder Malm has served in numerous Church callings, including full-time missionary in the Sweden Stockholm Mission, branch president, stake mission president, counselor in a mission presidency, counselor in a stake presidency, stake president, mission president, public affairs director for Sweden, and Area Seventy.

Per Gösta Malm was born in Jönköping, Sweden, on September 12, 1948. He married Ingrid Agneta Karlsson in October 1969. They are the parents of eight children.

General conference talks

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