Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth - CV
Minister for Culture
The Moderate Party
Areas of responsibility
- Culture
- Media
- Sport
- Faith communities
- Burials and cremations
Biography
Born on 24 November 1955 in Stockholm.
Education
Political science and sociology at Stockholm University, university diploma from Stockholm School of Journalism in 1980.
Positions held
2006-
Minister for Culture
2002-2006
Member of the Riksdag (Swedish Parliament)
1998-2002
Member of Stockholm City Council
1993-1994
Consultant with Burson-Marsteller, Stockholm
1985-2002
Freelance work for the Federation of Private Enterprises, Bonnier Tidskrifter, SAF-tidningen
1980-1984
Journalist on SAF-tidningen (newspaper of the Swedish Employers' Confederation)
1975-1976
Organiser, Swedish Young Conservatives (MUF), Stockholm County
Other assignments
Voluntary organisations
2004-2006
Board Member, Stödföreningen Anorexi-Bulimi-Kontakt
2004-2006
Board Member, Alla Kvinnors Hus (All Women's House)
1994-2004
Chair, stiftelsen Fryshuset (Fryshuset Foundation)
Board and committee appointments
2004-2006
University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre, Swedish Institute
2003-2006
Swedish Broadcasting Commission, Stiftelsen Nordiska museet (Sweden's national museum of cultural history)
2002-2006
Board Member, Maria Beroendecentrum AB (Maria Addiction Centre)
1997-2002
Board Member, Feelgood Svenska AB
Publications
2000
Frivillighetens kraft (Volunteer power)
1998
Priset på hederlighet får inte bli för högt (The price of honesty must not be too high) Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth et al.
1997
Svenska främlingar. Att älska Sverige med dess fel och brister. Om invandrare och deras möjligheter (Strangers to Sweden. Loving Sweden with all its faults and defects. About immigrants and their opportunities) Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth & Mauricio Rojas
1995
Skinnskallar. Rasister, nationalister eller hyggliga unga män? (Skinheads. Racists, nationalists or decent young men?)
1990
En låda berättar (Tales of a Box, a children's book) Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth & Ulf Adelsohn
