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About Lena Sommestad
- Lena Sommestad (born 3 April 1957 in Börje, Uppsala Municipality) is a Swedish Social Democratic politician and economic historian.
- She was Minister for the Environment in the Ministry of Sustainable Development in the Cabinet of Göran Persson from 2002-2006. Sommestad studied social sciences at Uppsala University and received a PhD degree in 1992.
- From 1998 to 2002 she was the managing director of the Swedish Institute for Futures Studies (Institutet för framtidsstudier).
- She had not held a politically elected office before Prime Minister Göran Persson made her Minister for the Environment in 2002.
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