Åsa Romson

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Åsa Romson
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Minister for the Environment
In office
3 October 2014 – 25 May 2016
Monarch Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime Minister Stefan Löfven
Preceded by Lena Ek
Succeeded by Karolina Skog
Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden
In office
3 October 2014 – 25 May 2016
Serving with Margot Wallström (Acting)
Monarch Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime Minister Stefan Löfven
Preceded by Jan Björklund
Succeeded by Isabella Lövin
Spokesperson of the Green Party
In office
21 May 2011 – 13 May 2016
Serving with Gustav Fridolin
Preceded by Maria Wetterstrand
Peter Eriksson
Succeeded by Isabella Lövin
Gustav Fridolin
Member of the Riksdag
Assumed office
25 May 2016
Constituency Stockholm Municipality
In office
4 October 2010 – 3 October 2014
Personal details
Born (1972-03-22) 22 March 1972 (age 52)
Stockholm, Sweden
Political party Green Party
Alma mater Stockholm University
Profession Lawyer

Åsa Elisabeth Romson (born 22 March 1972) is a Swedish politician who was the Minister for the Environment and ceremonial Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden in the Swedish Government from 2014 to 2016. She is a member of the Green Party and served as of its spokespersons along with Gustav Fridolin between 2011 and 2016.

Political career

She has been a member of the Swedish parliament since the 2010 election.[1]

Between 2002-2010 she was a member of the city council in Stockholm.[2] Since the 2010 election she has been a spokesperson for environmental and climate policy. In the late 1990s, she was a member of the Green Party and the Young Greens of Sweden.

On 29 March 2011, she was proposed as one of the candidates[3] to be the Green Party's new spokesperson, together with Gustav Fridolin. They were elected on 21 May 2011.

In 2012 Romson completed a Ph.D in environmental law at Stockholm University.[4]

Since 2014 she is the Minister for the Environment and Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden in the Löfven Cabinet.

In October 2014, Romson used an outlawed type of paint on the bottom of the ship she lives on. She claimed ignorance on both counts.[5]

On April 19, 2016, she described the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center as an accident[6][7][8] She explained that the disaster she was referring to in that context (the Swedish word Olycka meaning both accident or disaster) was that the topic of integration had become inflamed as a result of 911.[9]

Romson announced her intention in May 2016 to resign from the Government, following the Green Party's decision not to nominate her for the party leadership for another term.[10]

References

  1. Her own CV at
  2. Her own CV at
  3. http://www.asaromson.se/miljo/soker-ett-intressant-uppdrag/
  4. http://www.su.se/om-oss/press-media-nyheter/pressrum/%C3%A5sa-romson-disputerar-i-milj%C3%B6r%C3%A4tt-1.85448
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  9. http://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/har-vagrar-romson-svara-pa-varfor-kaplan-fick-ga
  10. SVT.se

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Political offices
Preceded by Spokesperson of the Green Party
2011–2016
Alongside:
Gustav Fridolin
Succeeded by
Gustav Fridolin
Isabella Lövin
Preceded by Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden
2014–2016
Serving with:
Margot Wallström (acting)
Succeeded by
Isabella Lövin
Preceded by Minister for the Environment
2014–2016
Succeeded by
Karolina Skog