Anne Marie Wibble (born Anne Ohlin on 13 October 1943 in Stockholm – 14 March 2000 in Stockholm) was a

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who served as Minister for Finance from 1991 to 1994, the first woman to hold the post. She was a member of the Liberal People's Party. She was the daughter of

Bertil Ohlin Bertil Gotthard Ohlin () (23 April 1899 – 3 August 1979) was a Swedish economist and politician. He was a professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics from 1929 to 1965. He was also leader of the People's Party, a social-libe ...

, a 1977

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laureate.

Education

Wibble graduated from the

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in 1966, then studied at Stanford University where she took an M.A. degree in 1967. In 1973 she took a

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at the Stockholm School of Economics, where she also was a teacher from 1967 to 1977.

Political career

Wibble worked for the Liberal People's Party in the Swedish government offices and the Swedish parliament from 1980 to 1986. She was a member of parliament from the 1985 election. In the 1991 election, a centre-right coalition won and Wibble was appointed Minister of Finance in the

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. She stayed in office to the 1994 election, which the government lost. Wibble returned to parliament, and ran for party leader in 1995, but lost to

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. She remained a member of parliament until the end of 1997, after which she became the chief economist of the Federation of Swedish Industry. She died from

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in 2000.

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