Alice Bah Kuhnke

Alice Bah Kuhnke 2014

Alice Bah Kuhnke (born December 21, 1971 in Malmö as Alice Bah ) is a Swedish journalist and politician ( Miljöpartiet de Gröna ). From 2014 to 2019 she was minister of culture and democracy in the Löfven government , and since 2019 she has been a member of the 9th European Parliament as part of the Greens / EFA group , of which she is also deputy group leader.

Life

Education and professional career

Bah Kuhnke grew up in Horda ( Småland ). Her father is from Gambia, the mother is Swedish. She spent her school days at a sports high school in Växjö and was one of the best 200-meter runners in Sweden in the late 1980s. From 1992 to 2000 she worked for the Swedish television stations Sveriges Television and TV4 .

After studying political science at Stockholm University from 1999 to 2003, she was Secretary General of Fairtrade Sweden from 2004 to 2007 . Between 2008 and 2009 she headed a think tank on civil society, before starting in 2013 she was responsible for sustainability issues at the consultancy ÅF . In 2013 she was appointed Director General of the Authority for Youth and Civil Society Affairs (MUCF).

Bah Kuhnke was a member of the supervisory boards and boards of various organizations and companies, including the Foundation Artists against Nazis ( Artister mot nazister , 2001 to 2007), the children's rights organization Save the Children Sweden (2002 to 2011) and the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm (2006 to 2012).

Change to politics

Alice Bah Kuhnke (2018)

In 2014, Bah Kuhnke surprisingly became Minister of Culture and Democracy in the first Löfven government . Only three days earlier she had joined the Miljöpartiet de Gröna party. In May 2016 she was elected to her party's executive committee. After the 2018 Reichstag election , Bah Kuhnke announced that she would no longer be a member of the new government. On January 21, 2019, she was replaced by Amanda Lind as Minister of Culture.

The Swedish Greens nominated her as the top candidate for the 2019 European elections. In the European elections , the Swedish Greens won two of the 21 Swedish mandates (two fewer than in the 2014 European elections ). Bah Kuhnke and her colleague Pär Holmgren thus moved into the European Parliament, both of whom joined the group The Greens / EFA . In the constituent meeting, the parliamentary group elected Bah Kuhnke as one of the seven deputy group chairmen. For the group she is in the ninth legislature (2019-2024) a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality .

Web links

Commons : Alice Bah Kuhnke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Profile of Bah Kuhnke on the homepage of the Swedish government
• Entry for Alice Bah Kuhnke in the European Parliament 's database of deputies

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alice Bah Kuhnke ny Minister of Culture. Dagens Nyheter , October 3, 2014, accessed February 19, 2017 (Swedish). 
2. ^ Alice Bah Kuhnke (MP) ar ny Minister of Culture. Svenska Dagbladet , October 3, 2014, accessed February 19, 2017 (Swedish). 
3. ↑ Amanda Lind (MP) blir ny Minister of Culture. Sveriges Television , January 21, 2019, accessed February 28, 2019 (Swedish). 
4. ↑ Home | Alice KUHNKE | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 7, 2019 .