Sven Otto Littorin

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Sven Otto Julius Littorin (born 1966) is a Swedish Moderate Party politician, Minister for Employment in the cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt, and former Secretary General of the Moderate Party.

He was born and grew up in Östergötland, where he was active in the Moderate Youth League from an early stage. He was national chairman of Moderate School Youth, a part of the youth league, 1984-1985. He graduated from Lund University before achieving an MBA at Fairfax University.

Between 1991 and 1993 he was chief of staff to Minister for Taxes, Bo Lundgren, later leader of the Moderate Party. After that he worked in the private sphere for, inter alia, Kreab. In 1997 he co-founded Momentor AB, a venture catalyst company, and worked as a Senior Partner until 2002. In 2003 he was appointed Secretary General by Bo Lundgren and later bacame a part of Fredrik Reinfeldt's team. He has played an integral part in the subsequent modernisation of the party, taking part in the development of several controversial policies. After the success of the Moderate Party in the Swedish general election 2006 he resigned as Secretary General and was later named Minister for Employment in the cabinet presented by Prime Minister Reinfeldt on October 6, 2006.

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