Magdalena Andersson

Andersson is the only child of Göran Andersson (1934–2002), a lecturer in statistics at Uppsala University, and teacher Birgitta Andersson (née Grunell; born 1939).

Andersson was an elite swimmer in her youth.

In her primary school years, she attended Malmaskolan in Norby which is a part of Uppsala.

During her high school years, Andersson studied social sciences at Katedralskolan in Uppsala.

Eva Magdalena Andersson (born 23 January 1967) is a Swedish politician and economist who has served as Leader of the Opposition since October 2022 and Leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party since 2021.

Andersson joined the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League in 1983.

Andersson joined the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League (SSU) in 1983 during her first year of secondary school.

She graduated in 1987 with top grades in all but one class.

In 1987, she was elected president of the Uppsala section of SSU.

In 1992, she earned a master's degree in economics from the Stockholm School of Economics.

She served as an adviser and director of planning in Göran Persson's administration and as an adviser to Mona Sahlin.

After graduating from high school, Andersson moved to Stockholm to study at the Stockholm School of Economics, where she graduated in 1992 with a master's degree in economics.

She started her doctorate in economics at the Stockholm School of Economics from 1992 to 1995, but ended before completing the degree.

As part of her doctoral studies, she studied abroad at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna during autumn 1994 and at Harvard University during spring 1995.

After completing her studies in economics, Andersson was employed in at Rosenbad as a political advisor to the then prime minister Göran Persson from 1996 to 1998, and later served as Director of Planning from 1998 to 2004.

She then spent time in the civil service, working as secretary of state in the Ministry of Finance from 2004 to 2006, before leaving to become a political advisor again, this time to opposition leader Mona Sahlin from 2007 to 2009.

She left this role when the government nominated her as Chief Director of the Swedish Tax Agency, a position she held until 2012.

She has served as a Member of the Riksdag for Stockholm County since 2014.

She previously served as Prime Minister of Sweden from November 2021 to October 2022, Minister for Finance from 2014 to 2021 and Chair of the International Monetary and Financial Committee from 2020 to 2022.

After the 2014 Swedish general election, Andersson was elected to the Riksdag and became Minister for Finance in Stefan Löfven's administration.

When Löfven announced his plans to step down in August 2021, she was regarded as the main candidate to succeed him.

Soon after that, she was elected leader of the Social Democrats.

Andersson was elected Prime Minister of Sweden by the Riksdag on 29 November 2021.

On 24 November 2021, Andersson had been elected to that position but resigned after an announcement by her coalition partner, the Green Party, that they were leaving the government in response to losing the annual budget vote in the Riksdag to the conservative opposition.

Andersson then assumed the office of Prime Minister on 30 November 2021 as Sweden's first female Prime Minister.

After her coalition lost its majority in the 2022 Swedish general election, Andersson announced her intention to resign as prime minister.

She was succeeded by Ulf Kristersson on 18 October the same year.

She resigned when adopted as a Swedish Social Democratic Party candidate ahead of the 2014 Swedish general election.

After the Social Democrats won the 2014 general election in which Andersson was elected as a member of the Riksdag, she was appointed as Minister for Finance by new prime minister Stefan Löfven in his cabinet.

As a result of coalition negotiations, while Andersson had overall responsibility for the Finance Ministry, Per Bolund was given responsibility for the oversight of financial markets and consumer protection as Minister for Financial Markets.

Andersson was reappointed as finance minister by Löfven following the 2018 Swedish general election.

In 2020, members of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), the primary policy advisory committee of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), chose Andersson to serve as chair of IMFC for a term of three years.

She became the first European in that role after more than a decade, as well as the first woman to hold that position.

In August 2021, Löfven announced he would resign as party leader at the party congress in November 2021.

Andersson was quickly regarded by many as the candidate most likely to succeed him, and on 29 September 2021 the party's nominating committee announced that Andersson had been chosen as leader-designate ahead of the congress; should the designation be accepted by the Riksdag, Andersson would become leader and first female prime minister of Sweden.

Andersson was elected Leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party on 4 November 2021, becoming the party's second female leader after Mona Sahlin.

On 10 November 2021, the incumbent prime minister Stefan Löfven formally resigned from office.

As part of the 2021 Swedish government formation, the speaker of the Riksdag held talks with all party leaders on 11 November and shortly after tasked Andersson with forming a government, giving her one week.

On 23 November, it was announced that Andersson had reached an agreement with the Left Party to support her at the upcoming prime ministerial vote.

With the Centre Party having previously agreed to support her, Andersson had the support of the required number of MPs to become Sweden's next prime minister.