Elisabeth Svantesson
Elisabeth Svantesson (* 1967 ) is a Swedish politician from the bourgeois-conservative party Moderata samlingspartiet (M). From September 2013 to October 2014 she was the labor minister of her country.
Life
Svantesson is the daughter of pastor Alvar Lundin and teacher Karin Lundin. She graduated in 2001 economics at the University of Uppsala from. Before that, she had already completed an economics degree at Örebro University . From 2002 to 2006 she was a member of Örebro's local parliament .
In 2006 she moved to the election to the Swedish Parliament in the Reichstag one. There she was initially a member of the labor market committee until 2010, before becoming a member of the economic committee after the 2010 election . In 2012 she returned to the Labor Market Committee, which she chaired until 2013.
On September 17, 2013, as part of a cabinet reshuffle, she was appointed labor market minister in the Reinfeldt government. She took over the post from Hillevi Engström , who became the new development minister . Svantesson kept the office until the government left on October 3, 2014. She then returned as a member of the Reichstag, where she was initially deputy chairwoman of the labor market committee until October 2017. She then became deputy chairwoman of the finance committee, and then took over its chairmanship in October 2018. Since February 2019 she has been the deputy chairwoman again.
Web links
- Elisabeth Svantesson at the Riksdagen (Swedish)
Individual evidence
- ^ Gunhild Wallin: Elisabeth Svantesson is Sweden's new Minister for Employment - Nordic Labor Journal . ( nordiclabourjournal.org [accessed February 27, 2020]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Svantesson, Elisabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |