Background
She is the daughter of Hugo Stenbeck, the founder of Investment Bachelor of Arts Kinnevik, and the sister of January Stenbeck who took over after their father.
Diplomat journalist politician
She is the daughter of Hugo Stenbeck, the founder of Investment Bachelor of Arts Kinnevik, and the sister of January Stenbeck who took over after their father.
She graduated from Stockholm School of Economics and later married Bertil af Ugglas who became the Party Secretary of the Moderate Party.
She was Minister for Foreign Affairs between 1991-1994. She was an editorial writer at Svenska Dagbladet for five years and sat in the Swedish Riksdag between 1974 and 1995. After the election victory in 1991, Margaretha af Ugglas became Sweden"s second female Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Her term included the finalisation of the negotiations leading up to Sweden"s entry into the East.U.
In 1992, together with 9 other Ministers of Foreign Affairs from the Baltic Sea area, and an European Union commissioner, she founded the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) and the EuroFaculty.
The Moderate Party lost the 1994 election and she was elected to the European Parliament in 1995. She is a former Chairman of the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation.