High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tobias Kjell Bertil Krantz (born 7 April 1971) is a Swedish politician, currently serving as Minister for Higher Education and Research in the Swedish government. He is a member of the Liberal People's Party.Tobias Krantz grew up in Bankeryd, Jönköping Municipality, Sweden. He earned a B.A. in politics, economics, history and French from Uppsala University in 1995. From 1995 to 2002 he was a Ph.D student and lecturer in political science at Uppsala University. His Ph.D. thesis, published in 2002, was titled The power over the region. A critical study of the debate about Swedish regions from 1963 to 1996.