Maria Borelius

Maria Sigrid Astrid Borelius (born July 6, 1960 in Täby ) is a Swedish journalist , entrepreneur , author and politician . She belongs to the Moderata samlingspartiet , sat in the Swedish parliament and was Minister of Commerce in Sweden for eight days in 2006. She is married and has four children.

Career

Borelius studied biology , physics and mathematics at Lund University and then environmental journalism at New York University . After graduating, she worked as a science journalist for several Swedish TV channels and was a columnist for Dagens Industri and Svenska Dagbladet . She also wrote several popular science articles and books. In the course of the IT boom , she founded an e-learning company called “K-World” in 1998 , which, however, had to file for bankruptcy four years later . She then worked in her own PR company in London before moving back to Sweden in the summer of 2006 to pursue politics.

Controversy

It was in the 2006 elections, elected as deputies to the Reichstag and on 6 October 2006 by Fredrik Reinfeldt to Trade Minister in his government added. Shortly after her appointment, Borelius admitted to hiring black nannies for an extended period in the early 1990s, even though she was on a high income at the time. When it became known that she had transferred her summer home in Sweden to a letterbox company in Jersey in order to avoid tax liability, Fredrik Reinfeldt announced a legal investigation into the incidents, whereupon Borelius resigned from her position as Minister of Commerce on October 14, 2006. She also announced that she would resign from her parliamentary mandate. She is the minister who has been in office in Sweden for the shortest period of time in recent times.

Web links

• Swedish Diet: Maria Borelius (Swedish)