Alice Bah Kuhnke

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Alice Bah Kuhnke
Alice Bah Kuhnke 2014-12-17 001.jpg
Vice-Chair of the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Assumed office
2 July 2019
Co-chairsSka Keller
Philippe Lamberts
Serving alongsideGwendoline Delbos-Corfield
Bas Eickhout
Terry Reintke
Molly Scott Cato
Alyn Smith
Ernest Urtasun
Member of the European Parliament
Assumed office
2 July 2019
ConstituencySweden
Minister for Culture
In office
3 October 2014 – 21 January 2019
Prime MinisterStefan Löfven
Preceded byLena Adelsohn Liljeroth
Succeeded byAmanda Lind
Minister for Democracy
In office
3 October 2014 – 21 January 2019
Prime MinisterStefan Löfven
Preceded byBirgitta Ohlsson
Succeeded byAmanda Lind
Personal details
Born
Alice Bah

(1971-12-21) 21 December 1971 (age 50)
Malmö, Sweden
Political partyGreen Party
Spouse(s)
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(m. 2003)​
Children3
WebsiteAlice Bah Kuhnke (mp)

Alice Bah Kuhnke (born Alice Bah; 21 December 1971) is a Swedish politician who served as the Minister of Culture and Democracy From October 2014 to January 2019. Before going into politics, she was a television presenter. She also helped found the think tank Sektor3.[1][2]

She was elected Member of the European Parliament in the 2019 European Parliament election in Sweden.[3]

Biography[]

Bah grew up in Horda in Småland, Sweden, the daughter of a Gambian father and a Swedish mother. She attended a track-and-field-oriented high school in Växjö and was one of the country's best female sprinters in the late 1980s, with the 200-meter dash her speciality.[4][5]

Television career[]

Bah's television career began with SVT's "Disney Club" in 1992. Between 1998 and 1999, she had her own talk show at TV4[6] and many other television assignments, including the current-event show "Kalla fakta".[7]

Political career[]

Already in 1994, Bah campaigned actively for her country to join the EU in a referendum.[8] After leaving television to study political science, she headed a philanthropic fund at the Swedish insurance company Skandia.[9] From 2004 to 2007, she worked as Secretary General of the fair trade organization Rättvisemärkt.[6]

Bah was a member of the Swedish Church synod from 2006 until 2010,[10] a member of the board of the Royal Dramatic Theater,[11] and Vice President of YMCA-YWCA Sweden.[12]

In September 2009, Bah took the position of manager of environmental quality and corporate social responsibility at ÅF.[13] Alongside that job, she served on the board of a small[14] internet design firm, Doberman.[15]

On 3 October 2014, Bah was appointed Minister of Culture in the Löfven Cabinet.[16] In addition to her role in government, she served as the Green Party's representative at the European Green Party from 2016.

Member of the European Parliament, 2019–present[]

Alice Bah Kuhnke presenting herself in a video produced by Heinrich Böll Foundation/Green European Foundation.

In 2019, Bah stood down as minister to lead her party's list for the European elections.[8] In parliament, she has since been serving as deputy chairwoman of the Greens–European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) group, under the leadership of co-chairs Ska Keller and Philippe Lamberts.[17] She also joined the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.

In addition to her committee assignments, Bah is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights[18] and the European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals.[19]

Personal life[]

In her late teens, Bah was engaged for two years to long jump Olympic finalist and World Silver Medalist Mattias Sunneborn.[20] In 1998, she married TV personality , from whom she was divorced in 2002.[21] The following year, she married actor and singer Johannes Bah Kuhnke,[21] with whom she has three daughters.[20]

References[]

  1. ^ Cecilia Jacobsson (3 November 2008). "Nu går hon in i en helt ny sektor" (in Swedish). DN.se. Retrieved 5 April 2010.
  2. ^ "Alice Bah Kuhnke (MP) är ny kulturminister". SvD.se. Archived from the original on 4 October 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  3. ^ Final results from European Parliament elections in Sweden Archived 21 September 2019 at the Wayback Machine Read 2019-05-31 (in Swedish)
  4. ^ Sverige-bästa 1986, Svenska Friidrottsförbundets officiella friidrottsstatistik (Sweden's best 1986 – official statistics of the Swedish Athletics Federation) (in Swedish). CEWE-förlaget. 1987.
  5. ^ Sverige-bästa 1988, Svenska Friidrottsförbundets officiella friidrottsstatistik (Sweden's best 1988 – official statistics of the Swedish Athletics Federation) (in Swedish). CEWE-förlaget. 1989.
  6. ^ a b "Alice Bah Kuhnke - Värnamo kommun". Varnamo.se. 9 March 2008. Archived from the original on 21 August 2010. Retrieved 5 April 2010.
  7. ^ "Alice Bah Kuhnke: "Studierna gjorde att jag slapp jobba med TV"". Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  8. ^ a b Charlie Duxbury (May 23, 2019), Big names aim to swap national politics for EU career Archived 25 May 2019 at the Wayback Machine Politico Europe.
  9. ^ "Cv Alice Bah Kuhnke". Regeringskansliet. 8 October 2014. Archived from the original on 1 May 2016.
  10. ^ "Val till Kyrkomöte - valresultat". Archived from the original on 22 September 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  11. ^ "Dramaten". Dramatens blogg. Archived from the original on 20 June 2010.
  12. ^ "KFUM Sverige". kfuk-kfum.se. Archived from the original on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  13. ^ "ÅF recruits Alice Bah Kuhnke as VP Sustainability & CSR" (Press release). Ad Hoc News. 29 April 2009. Archived from the original on 29 April 2009. Retrieved 5 April 2010.
  14. ^ "Doberman on Agency Spotter". Agency Spotter. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  15. ^ "Resumé: Alice Bah till Doberman". Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  16. ^ "Alice Bah Kuhnke ny kulturminister". DN.SE. 3 October 2014. Archived from the original on 5 October 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  17. ^ Greens/EFA group positions elected Archived 15 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine Greens–European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA), press release of June 12, 2019.
  18. ^ Members European Parliament Intergroup on LGBTI Rights.
  19. ^ Members European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals.
  20. ^ a b "Sunneborns okända förlovning – med Alice Bah Kuhnke". Expressen. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  21. ^ a b "Alice Bah har gift sig - med skådis". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
Political offices
Preceded by Minister for Culture
2014–2019 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister for Democracy
2014–2019 		Succeeded by
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