Helena Maria Dyrssen (born Håstad 19 July 1959), is a Swedish jurist and politician. From 2013 to 2016 she was the Chief Director of the Swedish Tax Agency. She left her post Shortly after Swedish Television announced that Dyrssen tried to warn her former colleague Frank Belfrage that his assets were being investigated by journalists as part of the Panama Papers investigation. Dyrssen was educated at Stockholm University, and holds an jur.kand. She was state secretary in the Ministry of Culture under Minister for Culture Birgit Friggebo from 1991 to 1994.