Ylva Johansson

Ylva Johansson
Johansson in 2024
European Commissioner for Home Affairs
Assumed office
1 December 2019
PresidentUrsula von der Leyen
Preceded byDimitris Avramopoulos
Minister for Employment
In office
3 October 2014 – 10 September 2019
Prime MinisterStefan Löfven
Preceded byElisabeth Svantesson
Succeeded byEva Nordmark
Minister for Health and Elderly Care
In office
13 September 2004 – 6 October 2006
Prime MinisterGöran Persson
Preceded byLars Engqvist (as Minister for Health and Social Affairs)
Succeeded byGöran Hägglund (Health Care)
Maria Larsson (Elderly Care)
Minister for Schools
In office
7 October 1994 – 7 October 1998
Prime MinisterIngvar Carlsson
Göran Persson
Preceded byBeatrice Ask
Succeeded byIngegerd Wärnersson
Member of Parliament
for Stockholm Municipality
In office
6 October 2006 – 5 September 2019
In office
4 October 1988 – 30 September 1991
Personal details
Born (1964-02-13) 13 February 1964 (age 60)
Huddinge, Sweden
Political partySocial Democrats (1992–present)
Other political
affiliations
VPK (–1992)
Spouse(s)
(m. 1990; div. 1999)

(m. 2002; sep. 2015)
Children3
Alma materLund University
Stockholm Institute of Education

Ylva Julia Margareta Johansson (born 13 February 1964) is a Swedish politician who has been serving as European Commissioner for Home Affairs and Sweden's European Commissioner in the von der Leyen Commission since 1 December 2019.

Johansson was previously Minister for Schools from 1994 to 1998, Minister for Health and Elderly Care from 2004 to 2006 and Minister for Employment from 2014 to 2019 in the Government of Sweden. She was Member of Parliament representing Stockholm Municipality, from 1988 to 1991 for the Left Party – Communists and from 2006 to 2019 for the Social Democrats.