Anna-Karin Hatt

Anna-Karin Hatt (born December 7, 1972) is a Swedish politician. She is a member of the Centre Party and since 2006 the party's State Secretary in the central coordination office of the Government of Sweden.^[1] She became on October 5, 2010 Minister for Information Technology and Regional Affairs. On September 29, 2011 her portfolio was changed to Minister for Information Technology and Energy.

Biography

Anna-Karin Hatt, born Andersson on December 7, 1972 and raised in Hylte municipality in Halland County, was from 1994-1998 part of the national board of the Center Party Youth League, and the 1995-1998 President of the Nordic Center Youth League. In the early 1990s Hatt studied political science, international relations and conflict and peace studies at the University of Gothenburg.

Hatt has been writing editorials in Hallands Nyheter and Södermanlands Nyheter in 1995 and became Permanent Secretary of the Center Party International Foundation. From 2000 she was Vice President of the Stockholm-based public relations agency Kind & Partners. She returned to politics in late 2003, when Maud Olofsson appointed her chief of staff for the Center Party, gave her a key role in the development of the Alliance election platform for the parliamentary election of 2006. During that time she assisted Maud Olofsson in writing the book Min dröm för Sverige, published in 2006.

Personal life

The magazine Focus designated her as Sweden's 95th most powerful person in 2008.

Hatt was previously married to Ola Alterå. She is now married to the Swedish politician Greger Hatt and has two daughters, born in 1997 and 2002, and lives in Huddinge.

References

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Swedish Wikipedia.