Career
She has served as Minister for Nordic Cooperation and Minister for Strategic Development, under Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, since 3 October 2014. She started her career in the Ministry of Finance in 1971, moved to the Secretariat for Future Studies and then spent the 80s in the trade union movement — first at the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (Liaison Office), then at the Liaison Office-TCO Secretariat of International Trade Union Development, later at the Confederation of Nordic Trade Unions (NFS) secretariat, and finally at the white collar union TCO. During the 90s she was an Member of Parliament and then an Member of the European Parliament, before becoming a county governor and deputy governor of the Swedish central bank. From 2007 she led the think tank Global Challenge, which she had founded herself.