Lena Ek

Lena Ek
Minister for the Environment
In office 29 September 2011 – 3 October 2014
Prime Minister	Fredrik Reinfeldt
Preceded by	Andreas Carlgren
Succeeded by	Åsa Romson
Personal details
Born	(1958-01-16) 16 January 1958 Mönsterås, Sweden
Political party	Centre Party
Spouse(s)	Anders Ek
Children	4
Alma mater	Lund University

Lena Ek (born 16 January 1958 in Mönsterås, Kalmar County) is a Swedish politician who served as Minister for the Environment from 2011 to 2014. She is a former Member of the European Parliament and Member of the Riksdag. She is a member of the Centre Party, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

She sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. She was also a substitute for the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and a member of the delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

Career

• Degree in law
• University lecturer in the Faculty of Law, Lund University (1987–1994)
• District Chairwoman, Centre Party, Östergötland (1993–1995)
• Chairwoman of Centre Party women's association (1998–2000)
• Member of the Centre Party executive (since 1998)
• Member of the party's executive committee (since 2000)
• Municipal Commissioner, Valdemarsvik (1994–1998)
• County councillor and substitute member of the Östergötland County Council Executive Committee (1994–1998)
• Member of the Swedish Parliament (1998–2004)
• Centre Party's spokesman on economic policy (1998–2004)
• Member of the European Parliament (2004-2011)
• Minister for the Environment (2011– 2014)

External links

• European Parliament biography
• Declaration (PDF) of financial interests (Swedish)
• Lena Ek's weblog (Swedish)