Lena Sommestad

Lena Sommestad
Minister for the Environment
In office
2002–2006
County Governor of Halland
In office
2014–2020
Personal details
Born (1957-04-03) 3 April 1957 (age 67)
Political partySocial Democratic
Lena Sommestad

Lena Sommestad (born 3 April 1957) 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 to 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 October 2002.[1]

Between April 2014 and March 2020, she was County Governor of Halland.[2]

  1. ^ Mattias Lundell (21 October 2002). "Här är Perssons nya ministrar" (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Lena Sommestad slutar som landshövding i Halland" (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. 4 February 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2021.