Eva Karin Pernilla Stålhammar (née Johansson; born 1971) is a

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politician and former member of the

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, the national

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. A member of the

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, she represented

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between July 2017 and September 2018. She had been a substitute member of the Riksdag three times: October 2014 to June 2016 (for

Åsa Romson Åsa Elisabeth Romson (born 22 March 1972) is a Swedish politician who was the Minister for the Environment and ceremonial Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden in the Swedish Government from 2014 to 2016. She is a member of the Green Party and serv ...

); June 2016 and July 2017 (for

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); and January 2019 to November 2021 (for Per Bolund). Stålhammar is the daughter of

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Stefan Johansson and the

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Barbara Johansson. She was educated at

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. She has a

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in economics from

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. She also studied economics at the

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at the

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and journalism at

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's Journalisthögskolan i Stockholm (JMK). Stålhammar was a national economist at the

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(Sida) (1994–1995) and in charge of Sida's development work with

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and involvement in the

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(1995–1998). She was a Swedish representative at the

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(1999–2001). She worked for the

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(2001–2003) and for the International Task Force on Global Public Goods (2003–2005). She was Sida's

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country co-ordinator (2007–2009).

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