Cecilia Schelin Seidegård (born 18May 1954, in

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

as Irene Cecilia Schelin), is a

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who served as Governor of Gotland County from 2010 to 2018 (including a two year extension beyond December 2016). Seidegård grew up in Visby. In her youth she was active in the Free Students, a political party of a students' union. For 1981–82, she was vice-chairman of the

Swedish National Union of Students The Swedish National Union of Students ( sv, Sveriges Förenade Studentkårer, SFS), is an umbrella organisation of students' unions at higher education facilities in Sweden. The organisation was founded in 1921. It has around 47 affiliated student ...

. She obtained a Ph.D. in biochemistry, and then worked in the pharmaceutical industry, particularly in the Astra Group, where she was director of research at AstraZeneca. In 2003–2004, she was CEO of Huddinge University Hospital AB, and in 2004–2007 she was Director of the merged

Karolinska University Hospital The Karolinska University Hospital ( sv, Karolinska universitetssjukhuset) is a teaching hospital affiliated with Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, with two major sites in the municipalities of Solna and Huddinge. The hospital network is ...

. Since 2004 she has been Chairman of the Board of the

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. Since 2008, she has also been chairman of the

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. She was elected in 2007 as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

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