Christian Engström

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Christian Engström
Christian Engström, 2014
Member of the European Parliament
for Sweden
In office
14 July 2009 – 1 July 2014
Personal details
Born (1960-02-09) 9 February 1960 (age 65)
Greens–EFA)
Alma materStockholm University
ProfessionProgrammer
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Lars Christian Engström (born 9 February 1960) is a Swedish computer programmer, activist and politician. He is deputy chairman of the Swedish Pirate Party. Engström was elected a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the 2009 election.[1]

Education and career

Christian Engström was born in

CompuMark.[2] Engström stayed on in a similar capacity as before until 2001, when he left the company to set up his own consultancy firm Glindra AB.[2]

Activism and politics

For five years Engström worked as an unpaid

software patents.[2] He was active in the campaign against the EU software patent directive, which was rejected by the European Parliament in July 2005.[2] He also co-founded the Swedish section of FFII and served as its deputy chairman during the first year.[2]

In the late 1980s, Engström became a member of the Swedish

Bromma, Stockholm.[2] He left the Liberal People's Party on 1 January 2006, following the founding of the Pirate Party.[2]

Engström was elected a

Greens–EFA).[6]

Engström was the only Swedish member of the European Parliament who voted against Mary Honeyball's report "Sexual exploitation and prostitution and its impact on gender equality", which recommends EU member states to adopt the "Swedish Model" that criminalises the purchase of sexual services.[7]

Personal life

Engström is married and has one son.[2] He lives with his family in Nacka, Stockholm County.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^
    Swedish Election Authority
    . 2009-06-11. Retrieved 2009-06-11.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Christian Engström" (in Swedish). Christian Engström. 11 October 2007. Retrieved 2013-06-10.
  3. Swedish Election Authority. 2009-06-11. Archived from the original
    on 2010-08-12. Retrieved 2009-06-11.
  4. Swedish Election Authority
    . 2009-05-21. Retrieved 2009-05-22.
  5. Swedish Election Authority. 2009-06-11. Archived from the original
    on 2009-06-08. Retrieved 2009-06-11.
  6. ^ Landes, David (25 June 2009). "Pirate Party to sit with Greens in European Parliament". The Local. Retrieved 14 July 2009.
  7. ^ "VoteWatch Europe: European Parliament, Council of the EU". Archived from the original on 2014-03-08. Retrieved 2014-03-01.
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