Ewa Hedkvist Petersen (born 15 January 1952 in

Arvidsjaur Arvidsjaur (; sju, Árviesjávrrie; ) is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Arvidsjaur Municipality in Norrbotten County, provinces of Sweden, province of Lapland, Sweden, Lapland, Sweden with 4,635 inhabitants in 2010. Arvidsjaur ...

Norrbotten Norrbotten (), known in English as North Bothnia, is a Swedish province (''landskap'') in northernmost Sweden. It borders south to Västerbotten, west to Swedish Lapland, and east to Finland. Administration The traditional provinces of Swede ...

) is a Swedish politician representing the

Social Democratic Workers' Party of Sweden The Swedish Social Democratic Party, formally the Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party ( sv, Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetareparti ; S/SAP), usually referred to as The Social Democrats ( sv, link=no, Socialdemokraterna ), is a social-de ...

. She was a Member of the

Riksdag The Riksdag (, ; also sv, riksdagen or ''Sveriges riksdag'' ) is the legislature and the supreme decision-making body of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral legislature with 349 members (), elected proportionally and se ...

between 1985 and 1994, and a Member of the

European Parliament The European Parliament (EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts ...

from 1999 to 2007. As a MEP she sat on the

Committee on Transport and Tourism The Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) is a committee of the European Parliament. Its current chair is the French MEP Karima Delli of the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance. Research service The Committee is directly supported by ...

Career

* Degree in social studies (1974) * School welfare officer (1974–1979) * Social welfare secretary (1979–1983) * Family law secretary (1983–1994) * Chief education officer (1994–1998) * Assistant project leader (1998–1999) * Social welfare secretary (1983–1994), chief education officer (1994–1998), assistant project leader (1998–1999) * Family law secretary (1983–1994) * Chief Education Officer (1994–1998) * Assistant project leader (1998–1999) * Member of Norrbotten county council (since 1998) * Chairwoman of the Norrbotten county education board (1987–1992), Member of the Swedish Parliament (1985–1994) * second Vice-Chairwoman of the Social Democratic group in the Swedish Parliament (1991–1994) * Government-appointed leader of the inquiry into the establishment of a Children's Rights Ombudsman (1991) * Chairwoman of the State Committee on Child Abuse (since 1999) * Member of the Council, Technical University of Luleå (1988–1997) * Chairman of Filmpool Nord (since 1992), Vice-Chairman of the board of the Swedish Film Institute (1995–1999) * Member of the European Parliament 1999-2007

References

External links

Official website

European Parliament biography
* 1952 births Living people People from Arvidsjaur Municipality Swedish Social Democratic Party MEPs MEPs for Sweden 1999–2004 MEPs for Sweden 2004–2009 20th-century women MEPs for Sweden 21st-century women MEPs for Sweden {{Sweden-SocialDemocratic-politician-stub