Friherre (Baron) Nils Daniel Carl Bildt is a Swedish politician and diplomat who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994. He was the leader of the Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999. Bildt served as Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2014,and as Member of Parliament from 1979 to 2001.
Hans Göran Persson is a Swedish politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006 and leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2007.
The Centre Party is a liberal political party in Sweden,founded in 1913.
The secretary of state for education,also referred to as the education secretary,is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom,responsible for the work of the Department for Education. The incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
Nils Edén was a Swedish historian and liberal politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1917 to 1920,and along with Hjalmar Branting acknowledged as co-architect of Sweden's transition from a constitutional monarchy to a fully parliamentary democracy with equal male and female suffrage.
Lars Erik Ansgar Leijonborg is a Swedish politician,Minister for Higher Education and Research 2006-2009 and Head of the Ministry of Education and Research 2006–2007. During a ten-year period from 1997 to 2007,he served as chairman of the Liberal People's Party.
Anna Cecilia Malmström is a Swedish politician who served as European Commissioner for Trade from 2014 to 2019. She previously served as European Commissioner for Home Affairs from 2010 to 2014 and Minister for European Union Affairs from 2006 to 2010. She was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Sweden from 1999 to 2006.
Jan Kenneth Eliasson is a Swedish diplomat who was Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations from July 2012 to December 2016. A member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party,Eliasson served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 24 April to 6 October 2006. Eliasson was appointed as Governing Board Chair of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in April 2017 and assumed his role as of 1 June 2017.
Rickard Johannes Sandler was a Swedish Social Democratic politician. He served as minister without portfolio in the Swedish government from 10 March 1920 to 30 June 1920,minister for finance from 1 July 1920 to 27 October 1920,minister without portfolio from 13 October 1921 to 19 April 1923,minister of commerce and industry from 14 October 1924 to 24 January 1925,Prime Minister from 24 January 1925 to 7 June 1926,and as minister for foreign affairs from 24 September 1932 to 19 June 1936 and again from 28 September 1936 to 13 December 1939. Sandler is the only social democratic prime minister who did not also hold the post of party chairman. He is also the second-youngest prime minister of Sweden,aged 41 when he took office.
Mailis Reps is an Estonian politician,a member of the Estonian Centre Party. She served as the Minister of Education and Research from 2002 to 2003,2005 to 2007 and 2016 to 2020.
Eva Birgitta Ohlsson Klamberg is a Swedish politician who was Minister for European Union Affairs in the Swedish government from 2010 to 2014. She is a member of the Liberals,formerly the Liberal People's Party. Birgitta Ohlsson serves as the National Democratic Institute’s director of political parties.
Jan Arne Björklund is a Swedish Liberal politician. He was member of the Riksdag from 2006 to 2019,representing Stockholm County,and served as leader of the Liberals from 2007 to 2019. Björklund served as Minister for Education from 2007 to 2014,and as Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden from 2010 to 2014.
Tobias Lennart Billström is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. He has served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Ulf Kristersson since 18 October 2022 and has been Member of the Riksdag since the 2002 general election,representing MalmöMunicipality (2002–2022) and Stockholm County.
Erik Jörgen Carl Ullenhag is a Swedish politician who served as Minister for Integration from October 2010 to October 2014 and as parliamentary group leader of the Liberal People's Party in the Swedish Riksdag from October 2014 to June 2016. He took office as Ambassador of Sweden to Jordan on 1 September 2016.
Torsten Olof "Olle" Fredrik Schmidt is a Swedish politician. He served as a Member of the European Parliament for the Swedish Liberal People's Party,part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe,between 1999 and 2004,and again between 2006 and 2014.
Per Gustav Edvard Fridolin is a Swedish journalist,author,teacher and former politician who served as Minister for Education from 2014 to 2019 and as one of two spokespersons of the Green Party from 2011 to 2019.
Cecilia Karin Maria Wikström,née Sundström,originally Nodbjörk is a Swedish politician who served as Member of the European Parliament from 2009 until 2019. She is a member of the Liberal Party of Sweden,part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
Nikolai Eivindssøn Astrup is a Norwegian politician representing the Conservative Party. He served as Minister of Local Government from 2020 to 2021. Previously he served as the Minister of International Development from 2018 to 2019 in Prime Minister Erna Solberg's cabinet,being the first since Heikki Holmås from 2012 to 2013. In 2019,he also became the first Minister of Digitalization after the Christian Democratic Party joined the Cabinet,a post he served in until 2020.
Lars Mikael Damberg is a Swedish politician of the Social Democratic Party. He served as Minister for Finance from 2021 to 2022. He previously served as Minister for Enterprise from October 2014 to January 2019 and as minister for home affairs from January 2019 to November 2021.
Andreas Pinkwart is a German politician and academic who served as State Minister for Economic Affairs,Digitization,Innovation and Energy in the governments of Ministers-President Armin Laschet and Hendrik Wüst of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2017 to 2022. He previously was the Dean of HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and holder of the Stiftungsfonds Deutsche Bank Chair of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship.
