Gunilla Carlsson

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Gunilla Carlsson (2012).
Gunilla Carlsson at the Gothenburg Book Fair 2007

Gunilla Carlsson (born May 11, 1963 in Lund , Skåne province , Sweden ) is a Swedish politician of the Moderata samlingspartiet and was Minister for International Development Cooperation in the Fredrik Reinfeldt government from 2006 to 2013 . From 2017-2019, she was Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Joint Program on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS).

Professional background

After attending school, she completed courses in bookkeeping and accounting at Linköping University from 1982 to 1983 and then worked as an accountant from 1984 to 1990 and then from 1990 to 1994 as head accountant.

Political career

In 1989 Gunilla Carlsson began her political career with the election to the local council of Vadstena . Between 1992 and 1995 she was vice-chairwoman of the youth association and at the same time a co-opted member of the board of the Moderate Collection Party . In 1993 she became vice chairman of the Young Union of the Nordic Conservatives and then in 1994 political administrator in the secretariat of the Moderate Collection Party in the Reichstag . Subsequently, she was vice chairwoman of the International Young Democrat Union (IYDU) between 1994 and 1998 .

In 1994 she was elected a member of the 4th European Parliament . She was a member of the European Parliament as a member of the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats until 2002. During this time she was chairman of the delegation of the Moderate Gathering Party and a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights , Community Security and Defense Policy and a deputy member of the Committee on Industry, Foreign Trade, Research and Energy from 1999 to 2002 .

She was a member of the program committee of her party from 1996 to 1997 and, after serving as second vice chairman from 1999 to 2003, Gunilla Carlsson was first vice chairman of the Moderata samlingspartiet from 2003 to 2015 and thus the first deputy of the then party chairman Fredrik Reinfeldt .

In the Reichstag elections on September 15, 2002 , she was elected a member of parliament and was a member of parliament until 2006. She was a member of the war delegation from 2002 to 2006, a member of the Education Committee from 2002 to 2003, from 2002 to 2004 a member of the Committee on European Union Affairs and from 2003 to 2004 of the Foreign Affairs Committee. In addition, from 2004 to 2006 she was alternating member of the Swedish delegation to the Nordic Council and at the same time also a deputy member of the EU Affairs Committee and Vice-Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

From 2004 to 2006 Gunilla Carlsson was Vice-Chair of the European People's Party .

On October 6, 2006 she was appointed Minister for International Development Cooperation in the Foreign Ministry by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. She resigned from this post on September 17, 2013. Her successor was Hillevi Engström , who had previously held the office of Minister of Labor.

In her final year as minister from 2012 to 2013, Carlsson worked with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf , David Cameron and others in the advisory group for a "Post-2015 Development Agenda" which UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed to oversee international development policy to design the period after the end of the Millennium Development Goals project (2000 - 2015).

After her resignation, Carlsson worked with Tertius Zongo and Callisto Madavo for the African Development Bank until 2014 in an expert committee for fragile states , where strategies were developed specifically for the Horn of Africa . Between 2013 and 2015 she was a member of the Commission to Fight AIDS formed by UNAIDS and the renowned medical journal The Lancet , chaired by Joyce Banda , Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma and Peter Piot .

In 2017, Carlsson was appointed UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director with the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations by UN Secretary General António Guterres . After the resignation of UNAIDS Director Michel Sidibé in 2019, she temporarily headed the organization for seven months until Winnie Byanyima took over the office on November 1, 2019. As one of the first acts of office Winnie Byanyima dismissed her deputy Gunilla Carlsson.

Web links

Commons : Gunilla Carlsson  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gunilla Carlsson skadade biståndet. In: Helsingborgs Dagblad. September 17, 2013, accessed October 15, 2013 (Swedish).
  2. ^ Secretary-General Assembles High-level Panel on Post-2015 Development Agenda, Appointing 26 Members of Government, Civil Society, Private Sector , press release of the UN General Secretariat of July 31, 2012.
  3. ↑ African Development Bank appoints three High-Level Advisors on Fragility African Development Bank , press release of December 2, 2015.
  4. ^ List of Commissioners UNAIDS - Lancet Commission on Defeating AIDS.
  5. ↑ UNAIDS welcomes Gunilla Carlsson as new Deputy Executive Director, Management and Governance , UNAIDS press release of December 12, 2017.
  6. ↑ United Nations Secretary-General appoints Gunilla Carlsson as Executive Director, ai, of UNAIDS , press release of the UN General Secretariat of May 18, 2019.
  7. ↑ Rick Gladstone (May 8, 2019), Damaged in Scandal, Head of UN AIDS Agency Resigns Suddenly New York Times .
  8. ↑ https://www.unaids.org/en/aboutunaids/unaidsleadership accessed on December 9, 2019
  9. ^ Gunilla von Hall: Gunilla Carlsson tvingas lämna kritiserat FN-organ | SvD . In: SvD.se . ( svd.se [accessed February 18, 2020]).


personal data
SURNAME Carlsson, Gunilla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish politician, former MEP, UN official
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Lund , Skane Province , Sweden