Lena Sommestad

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Lena Sommestad
Minister for the Environment
In office 2002–2006
County Governor of Halmstad
In office 2014–2020
Personal details
Born	3 April 1957
Political party	Social Democratic

Lena Sommestad (born 3 April 1957) is a Swedish

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 Halmstad.^[2]

Selected bibliography

• "Sågverksarbetarna i strukturomvandlingen: hur arbetsstyrkan vid Söderhamns och Söderalas exportsågverk förändrades till storlek och sammansättning under mellankrigstiden" - 1983.
• "Från mejerska till mejerist: en studie av mejeriyrkets maskuliniseringsprocess" - 1992.
• "Rethinking gender and work: rural women in the Western world" - 1995 Gender & Society no. 1.
• "Welfare state attitudes to the male breadwinning system: the United States and Sweden in comparative perspective" - 1997 International review of social history no. 5.
• "Kvinnor mot kvinnor: om systerskapets svårigheter" - 1999 Redaktör tillsammans with Christina Florin and Ulla Wikander.
• Befolkning och Välfärd—Demografiska förutsättningar för framtidens välfärdspolitik. Institutet för framtidsstudier 2002, editor.
• "The hidden pulse of history", Scandinavian Journal of History, 25, pp. 131–146 - with Bo Malmberg.

References

External links

• Information page on the Swedish Government web site