Education
Stockholm School of Economics. Stockholm University.
politician Member of the Riksdag
Stockholm School of Economics. Stockholm University.
She has been leader of the Moderate Party since January 2015. She was chairman of the Committee on European Union Affairs from 2007 to 2010 and chairman of the Committee on Finance from 2010 to 2014. On 9 December 2014, the Moderate Party"s nomination committee nominated Anna Batra to succeed Fredrik Reinfeldt as party leader.
She was elected to the position at the party congress on 10 January 2015.
Anna was born in Skärholmen. In 1974 and her family moved to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as her father worked for Merrill Lynch"s Amsterdam office.
Batra speaks fluent Dutch after her years in the country. They moved back to Sweden in 1980, settling in Djursholm where Batra spent the rest of upbringing.
She is a graduate from the Stockholm School of Economics.
She has also studied foreign languages and political science at Stockholm University. She was active in student politics as chairman of the Stockholm University Student Union, and as the first female chairman of the Moderate Youth League in Stockholm County. Prior to the 2006 general election she worked at the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, and prior to that she worked in different companies as a public relations consultant.
She has authored the book Indien – från stackare till stormakt ("India – From Wretch to Great Power", Timbro, 2005). became known to the general public when she stated that "people from Stockholm are more intelligent than people from rural areas" in her election campaign 1998.
In 2014, she apologized for this statement and said that "it is still the stupidest thing I"ve said publicly". She faced criticism from voters and from within the Moderate Party after the December agreement, which was considered a victory for Prime Minister Stefan Löfven.
On 9 October 2015, following the Christian Democrats departure from the agreement, Batra announced that the December agreement was now dissolved.
She has been a Member of the Swedish Riksdag for Stockholm Municipality since 2006. She has also been an elected member of the Stockholm County Council and the municipal council in Nacka Municipality.