Carl Schlyter

Carl Schlyter
Member of the Swedish Riksdag for Stockholm County
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 October 2014
Member of the European Parliament for the Kingdom of Sweden
In office July 2004 – July 2014
Personal details
Born	(1968-01-07) January 7, 1968 Danderyd, Sweden
Political party	Green Party
Alma mater	Royal Institute of Technology

Carl Schlyter (born 7 January 1968 in Danderyd, Stockholm County) is a Swedish politician who has been a member of the Swedish Riksdag for Stockholm County since 2014. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 to 2014. He is a member of the Green Party, which is part of the European Greens, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He is a member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

He was also a substitute for the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Fisheries, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Career

• Chemical engineering specialising in biotechnology and the environment (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 1987–1994)
• Research study Impurities in coal (Miami University, Ohio, 1989)
• Museum guide (1994)
• Political secretary of the Green Party in Stockholm City Hall (1994–1995)
• Assistant, European Parliament (1996)
• Responsible for Agenda 21 and the environment, culture and sports administration Stockholm (1997)
• Adviser to the Green Group in the Committee on Budgetary Control (1997–2004)
• Member of the party's Executive (2000–2008)
• Sweden's representative in the European Green Federation (since 2001)
• Sweden's representative in the Global Greens (since 2002)

External links

• Official website
• European Parliament biography
• Declaration (PDF) of financial interests (in Swedish)