Margaretha af Ugglas
Baroness ( Friherrinna ) Märta Margaretha af Ugglas (birth name: Märta Margaretha Stenbeck ; born January 5, 1939 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish economic manager and politician of the Moderate Collection Party ( Moderata samlingspartiet ) .
biography
After attending school, she began studying business administration in 1961 and was a temporary visiting student in the United States on a grant from the Harvard-Radcliffe program. After returning to Sweden, she continued her studies at the Stockholm School of Commerce and graduated in 1964 as an economist . Between 1966 and 1967 she worked for the business newspaper Veckans Affärer .
She later switched to the private sector and was a board member of investment company AB Kinnevik from 1970 to 1983 and of Sandvik AB , one of Sweden's largest industrial companies, from 1970 to 1974 . She was also a member of the board of directors of Bulten-Kanthal AB (1972 to 1980), the mining company Boliden AB (1978 to 1985) and, since 1979, of the tobacco and match manufacturer Swedish Match .
In addition, she became a member of the Moderata samlingspartiet , in whose management bodies she rose. Between 1974 and 1995 she represented the interests of the Moderate Collection Party in the Reichstag . During this time she was a deputy member from 1982 to 1983, then a member until 1986 and finally a deputy member again from 1986 to 1992 of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe .
On October 4, 1991, she was of Prime Minister Carl Bildt to Secretary appointed and retained this position until the end of Bildt's term of office on 7 October 1994th
During her tenure, from January 1 to December 31, 1993, she was acting chairman of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and chairwoman of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe .
On June 20, 1994, the Swedish King Karl Gustav received a group of 40 Balts in the Royal Palace of Stockholm; while receiving the Secretary Margaretha af Ugglas apologized on behalf of the government for the hasty and erroneous decision on the extradition of Baltic from Sweden after the end of World War II .
After leaving the government, she was Vice-Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Reichstag between October 1994 and January 1995.
Between January and October 1995 she was a member of the 4th European Parliament , where she represented the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and was a member of foreign affairs, security and defense policy.
Web links
- Female Ministers of Foreign Affairs (Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership)
- rulers.org
- Swedish Parliament website (Swedish)
Individual evidence
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- ^ Entry on Margaretha af Ugglas in the European Parliament 's database of representatives
Carl Bildt | Margaretha af Ugglas | Beatrice Ask | Anders Björck (1991–1994) | Inger Davidson | Ulf Dinkelspiel | Birgit Friggebo | Gun Hellsvik | Börje Hornlund | Olof Johansson (1991-1994) | Bo Koenberg | Reidunn Laurén | Bo Lundgren | Mats Odell | Karl Erik Olsson | Alf Svensson | Görel Thurdin | Per Unckel | Bengt Westerberg | Per Westerberg | Anne Wibble
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| SURNAME | Ugglas, Margaretha af |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ugglas, Märta Margaretha af (full name); Stenbeck, Märta Margaretha (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish politician (Moderata samlingspartiet), member of the Riksdag, MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |