Lena Birgitta Hjelm-Wallén (born 14 January 1943) is a Swedish politician. In 1968 Hjelm-Wallén became a member of the Swedish Parliament (

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) and she held several cabinet positions, starting in 1974 as the youngest minister to that date. A member of the

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party, she served as Minister for Education from 1982 to 1985, as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 1998 and as

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from 1995 to 2002. She has served as chair of the governing board of the

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(IDEA), an intergovernmental organisation with 25 member states whose objective is supporting sustainable democratic change worldwide.

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