Lena Sommestad

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Lena Sommestad, born April 3, 1957 in Börje, Uppsala Municipality, is a Swedish Social Democratic politician. She was Minister for the Environment in the Ministry of Sustainable Development in the Cabinet of Göran Persson 2002-2006.

Lena Sommestad studied social sciences at Uppsala University and got 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, when Prime Minister Göran Persson made her Minister for the Environment in 2002.

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