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Lena Sommestad
Politician
1957 –
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Who is Lena Sommestad?
Lena Sommestad is a Swedish Social Democratic politician and economic historian. She was Minister for the Environment in the Ministry of Sustainable Development in the Cabinet of Göran Persson 2002-2006.
Sommestad studied social sciences at Uppsala University and received a PhD degree in 1992. From 1998 to 2002 she was the managing director of the Swedish Institute for Futures Studies. She had not held a politically elected office before Prime Minister Göran Persson made her Minister for the Environment in 2002.
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- Born
- Apr 3, 1957
Sweden - Nationality
- Sweden
- Profession
- Education
- Uppsala University
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on July 23, 2013
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