Gunilla Carlsson

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Gunilla Carina Carlsson (born 11 May 1963) is a Swedish Moderate Party politician, currently Minister for Development Cooperation and a member of the Swedish Riksdag och deputy chairman of her party.

She was born and raised in Vadstena in Östergötland. She was at one time chairman of the Moderate Youth League district in that county. At The Battle of Lycksele, when current party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt was elected chairman of the Youth League, Carlsson was elected vice chairman.

After working as an auditor, she joined the Moderate Party office in 1994. In 1995 she was elected to the European Parliament and served until 2002, when she was elected to the Riksdag for Stockholm. In 1999, she was elected vice chairman of the Moderate Party.

With the growing co-operation between the Swedish opposition parties, she was appointed to head the group co-ordinating foreign policy. This has led to speculation about her being a possible candidate to the office of Minister for Foreign Affairs after Alliance for Sweden's victory in the 2006 election. With a number of the Moderate Party Riksdag members from Östergötland resigning, she has decided to stand in her home county in 2006. While she won the internal primaries, she was only placed second on the list after Gunnar Axén, but comfortably reached re-election as the party went from three to four seats from the county.^[1] She continues to make her home in Tyresö outside Stockholm.

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• Officiell website (Swedish)
• Gunilla Carlsson at the Riksdag website (Swedish)

Preceded by Carin Jämtin

Swedish Minister for Development Cooperations 2006—

Succeeded by Incumbent

Cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt

Fredrik Reinfeldt (Prime Minister) • Cecilia Malmström (EU Affairs) • Beatrice Ask (Justice) • Tobias Billström (Migration and Asylum Policy) • Carl Bildt (Foreign Affairs) • Sten Tolgfors (Foreign Trade) • Gunilla Carlsson (International Development Cooperation) • Mikael Odenberg (Defence) • Göran Hägglund (Social Affairs) • Maria Larsson (Public Health and Social Services) • Cristina Husmark Pehrsson (Social Security) • Anders Borg (Finance) • Mats Odell (Local Government and Financial Markets) • Lars Leijonborg (Education and Science) • Jan Björklund (Schools) • Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth (Culture) • Eskil Erlandsson (Agriculture) • Andreas Carlgren (Environment) • Maud Olofsson (Industry and Trade, Vice Prime Minister) • Åsa Torstensson (Infrastructure) • Sven Otto Littorin (Employment) • Nyamko Sabuni (Integration and Gender Equality)