Annie Lööf

Annie Marie Therése Lööf (née Johansson, 16 July 1983, Maramö, Värnamo Municipality, Småland) is a Swedish law graduate and Centre Party politician. She has been a member of the Riksdag since 2006. On 31 August 2011 she was put forward as the next party chairman of the Centre Party, and on 23 September 2011 she was elected.^[1] As of 29 September 2011, she is Minister for Enterprise and Regional Affairs.

Biography

Annie Lööf was born and raised in Maramö outside Värnamo. She still lives in Värnamo. During her last year at Finnvedens Secondary School in Värnamo, where she studied social sciences, she developed an interest in politics, and at the end of 2001, she joined the Centre Party. During the 2002 election, she was employed as an election-agent for the Centre Party Youth in Jönköping County and was the same year awarded the Dag Hammarskjöld Award for her commitment to international environmental issues and peace. After the election, she enrolled to study law at Lund University and graduated in August 2011 with a law degree.

In the parliamentary election in 2006, she was elected a member of parliament and for the parliamentary period of 2006-2010, she was Sweden's youngest member of parliament.

In January 2007 Lööf, along with her colleague Fredrick Federley, initiated the Liberal Group, a network of liberal-minded people inside and outside parliament. She has also been the deputy chairman of the Centre Party Youth. For several years, she served on the board of the Nordic Centre Youth Federation, Scandinavia's second largest youth organization.

In 2008, Lööf was awarded the "Young European Leadership Program" grant from the United States Embassy.

References

External links

• Annie Lööf (Cen) at the Riksdag website