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Birgitta Ohlsson
Swedish politician

Birgitta Ohlsson

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Swedish politician
A.K.A.
Eva Birgitta Ohlsson Klamberg
Places
Gender
Female
Place of birth
Linköping Cathedral Congregation, Linköping Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden
Age
49 years
Politics:
Education
Stockholm University
Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden
Positions
Minister for EU Affairs
(2 February 2010-3 October 2014)
Minister for Consumer Affairs
(5 October 2010-3 October 2014)
Minister of Democracy
(5 October 2010-3 October 2014)
member of the Swedish Riksdag
(30 September 2002-2 October 2006)
member of the Swedish Riksdag
(2 October 2006-1 February 2010)
member of the Swedish Riksdag
(4 October 2010-4 October 2010)
member of the Swedish Riksdag
(4 October 2014-16 November 2014)
member of the Swedish Riksdag
(4 July 2015-24 September 2018)
member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
(14 September 2004-2 October 2006)
member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
(10 October 2006-1 February 2010)
member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
(7 October 2014-14 February 2018)
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Biography

Eva Birgitta Ohlsson Klamberg (born 20 July 1975) is a Swedish politician who was Minister for European Union Affairs in the Swedish government from 2010 to 2014. She is a member of the Liberals, formerly the Liberal People's Party. Birgitta Ohlsson serves as the National Democratic Institute’s director of political parties.

In June 2017, Ohlsson challenged incumbent party leader Jan Björklund to become the next leader at the congress in November 2017. On 15 September 2017, following results from the 'test election' in Stockholm County, Ohlsson announced she was to relinquish her leadership bid and to leave the political arena by the next general election in 2018.

Early life and education

Birgitta Ohlsson was born on 20 July 1975 in Linköping, Östergötland County, Sweden. She received her upper secondary (gymnasium) education at Katedralskolan in Linköping between 1991 and 1994. Between 1994 and 1997 she studied political science, international relations and United Nations studies at Stockholm University.

Career

Between 1997 and 1999 Ohlsson worked as an editorial writer for several liberal newspapers in Sweden, such as Sundsvalls Tidning, Vestmanlands Läns Tidning, Västerbottens-Kuriren and Dagens Nyheter. Between 1999 and 2002 she was chair of the Liberal Youth of Sweden, the youth wing of the Liberal People's Party.

In the 2002 general election Ohlsson was elected a member of the Swedish parliament, representing the Stockholm Municipality constituency. In the parliament she served as a substitute to the Committee on the Labour Market (2002–2006) and the Committee on Foreign Affairs (2002–2004), and as a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (2006–2010). In the parliament she was also her party's spokesperson on foreign affairs.

She has also held various voluntary assignments, such as chair of the Association of Liberal Students in Stockholm (1996–1998), deputy chair of Young European Federalists in Sweden (1998), member of the board of the Swedish International Liberal Centre (since 2001), chair of the Swedish Republican Association (2002–2005), deputy chair of the Sweden–Israel Friendship Association in Stockholm (2003–2005), member of the national board of the Liberal People's Party (since 2007) and chair of the Federation of Liberal Women (2007–2010). She is also part of the Elie Wiesel Network of Parliamentarians for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities and against Genocide Denial.

On 2 February 2010 Ohlsson was appointed as new Minister for European Union Affairs in the Swedish government, succeeding Cecilia Malmström.

From 2018 until 2019, Ohlsson served on an Independent Commission on Sexual Misconduct, Accountability and Culture Change at Oxfam, co-chaired by Zainab Bangura and Katherine Sierra.

Personal life

Birgitta Ohlsson is married to Mark Klamberg, a Ph.D. and professor of international law at Stockholm University.

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