Ewa Björling

Eva Björling

Ewa Björling (born May 3, 1961 in Ekerö , Stockholm Province ) is a Swedish politician of the Moderata samlingspartiet and was Minister of Commerce in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2014 . From 2010 to 2014 she was also Minister for Nordic Cooperation.

biography

After attending school, she studied dentistry at the Karolinska Institute and after completing her studies in 1987 and being admitted in 1988, she started working as an oral surgeon . After receiving her doctorate as a Philosophiae Doctor of Medicine (Ph.D. Medicine), she became an associate professor at the Karolinska Institute in 1999 .

In 1999 she began her political career in local politics and was a member of the municipal council of Ekerö from 1999 to 2006, where she initially also chaired the committee for social welfare from 1999 to 2002. Between 2005 and 2006 she was also chairwoman of the Ekerö municipal council.

In the Reichstag elections on September 15, 2002 , she was elected for the first time as a member of the Reichstag as a candidate for the Moderate Collection Party. During her parliamentary membership, she was a member of the Committee on Foreign Policy and Deputy Member of the Education Committee between 2002 and 2007 . After the Reichstag elections on September 17, 2006 , she was also a deputy member of the Advisory Council for Foreign Affairs and the Committee on the Constitution of Sweden until 2007 .

In addition, she performed some functions in the Moderate Gathering Party and was not only a board member in Stockholm Province from 2002 to 2007, but also in the Ekerö municipality from 2003 to 2007.

In addition, she held a number of other offices and functions during her membership in parliament. From 2003 to 2007 she was a board member of the Central Authority for International Development Cooperation (SIDA) and from 2006 to 2007 a member of the HIV - AIDS working group of the Interparliamentary Union . In addition to serving as chair of the Swedish- American Parliamentary Society, she was also a member of the Hudson Institute's Advisory Committee on Global Philanthropy from 2005 to 2007 . In addition, she was Sweden's representative in Working Group 5 (Foreign and Security Policy) of the European People's Party from 2003 to 2007 , vice member of the advisory body on genetic engineering , board member of the Swedish Social Security from 2004 to 2007 and chair of the Swedish delegation to the from 2006 to 2007 Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly and Vice-Member of the Bank of Sweden Memorial Foundation. In 2007 she also became chairwoman of the National Council for AIDS Prevention.

As part of a cabinet reshuffle, she appointed Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt as trade minister at the foreign minister's office and thus to succeed Sten Tolgfors , who became defense minister .

Web links

Commons : Ewa Björling  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Swedish government website