Gustav Fridolin
Gustav Fridolin | |
|---|---|
| In office 30 September 2002 – 2 October 2006 | |
| Constituency | Stockholm Municipality |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 May 1983 Hässleholm, Sweden |
| Political party | Green Party |
| Spouse |
Jennie Fridolin
(m. 2007; div. 2019) |
| Children | 2 |
| Profession | Journalist, Teacher |
Per Gustav Edvard Fridolin (born 10 May 1983) is a Swedish journalist, author, teacher and former politician who served as Minister for Education from 2014 to 2019 and as one of two spokespersons of the Green Party from 2011 to 2019.
He was a
He was elected joint spokesperson for the
As of March 2020, he works as a teacher at the Stockholm City Mission Folk High School.[2]
Biography
Fridolin was born in
Fridolin first served as a
In 2005 Fridolin announced that he would not be up for re-election as an MP in the 2006 election.[7]
Fridolin again ran as a candidate for parliament in the
Fridolin has written three books, all on politics. The first, titled Från Vittsjö till världen - om global apartheid och alla vi som vill någon annanstans (From Vittsjö to the world - about global apartheid and everyone of us that want to go somewhere), was released in 2006. His second book, titled Blåsta, was released in 2009, and his third book, Maskiner och människor - en skrift om arbete och framtidstro (Machines and men - writings on labour and belief in the future) was released in 2011. Machines and men was cowritten with Ulf Bodach Söderström and lays out a possible policy for an environmentally friendly industry.
Gustav Fridolin married Jennie Fridolin 2007;
In 2014 he became the Minister for Education in the
References
- ^ Parliament of Sweden. 15 October 2010. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
- ^ Gustav Fridolins new life as a folk high school teacher (in Swedish) Published 4 March 2020
- ^ Sveriges befolkning 1990, DVD-ROM, Riksarkivet SVAR 2011
- ^ "Reinfeldt 'open' to opposition deals - The Local". Retrieved 13 September 2014.
- ^ Lerner, Thomas (8 April 2010). "Lättare tappa fotfästet nära makten". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 19 August 2010. Retrieved 19 August 2010.
- ^ Richard Orange (13 September 2014). "Free-market era in Sweden swept away as feminists and greens plot new path to left - World news - The Observer". the Guardian. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
- ^ Stenberg, Ewa (19 February 2006). "Ung veteran lämnar politikens elitserie". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 24 September 2010. Retrieved 19 August 2010.
- ^ "Fridolin har gjort sitt val". 14 September 2006.
- ^ "Gustav och Jennie Fridolin skiljer sig". 11 November 2019.
- ^ "Gustav Fridolin efter skilsmässan: Inte så kul". 18 December 2019.
- ^ Fridolin, Gustav (18 January 2011). "De gröna ska inta mitten i den svenska politiken". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 June 2011.
External links
- Official website (in Swedish)
- Gustav Fridolin at the Green Party (in Swedish)
- Gustav Fridolin at the Swedish parliament