Catharina Elmsäter-Svärd
Appearance
Catharina Elmsäter-Svärd | |
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![]() Elmsäter-Svärd in 2012. | |
Minister for Infrastructure | |
In office 5 October 2010 – 3 October 2014 | |
Monarch | Carl XVI Gustaf |
Prime Minister | Fredrik Reinfeldt |
Preceded by | Åsa Torstensson |
Succeeded by | Anna Johansson |
Minister of Defence Acting | |
In office 29 March 2012 – 18 April 2012 | |
Monarch | Carl XVI Gustaf |
Prime Minister | Fredrik Reinfeldt |
Preceded by | Sten Tolgfors |
Succeeded by | Karin Enström |
Personal details | |
Born | Catharina Sabine Maria Laurine Elmsäter-Svärd 23 November 1965 Mönsterås, Sweden |
Political party | Moderate Party |
Catharina Sabine Maria Laurine Elmsäter-Svärd (born 23 November 1965) is a Swedish politician who was Minister for Infrastructure from 2010 to 2014. A member of the Moderate Party, she was an MP of the Swedish Riksdag for Stockholm County from October to December 2014, having previously been that from 1997 to 2008. On 16 December 2014, she announced that she would leave politics.[1]
She held the positions as Commissioner of Finance and Chief Commissioner in of Stockholm County Council from 2008 to 2010. She also served as acting Minister of Defence from 29 March to 18 April 2012, following the sudden resignation of Sten Tolgfors.
References
[edit]- ^ Elmsäter-Svärd leaves politics Läst 2014-12-19.
External links
[edit]- Catharina Elmsäter-Svärd at the Riksdag website
Categories:
- 1965 births
- Female defence ministers
- Ministers for infrastructure of Sweden
- Living people
- Members of the Riksdag from the Moderate Party
- Women members of the Riksdag
- Women government ministers of Sweden
- Members of the Riksdag 2002–2006
- 21st-century Swedish women politicians
- People from Mönsterås Municipality
- Moderate Party politician stubs