Background
Ahlin was born on November 13, 1964, in Mariestad, Skaraborg County, Sweden.
Urban Ahlin
Between 1985 and 1990 Ahlin studied at the specialist teacher-training course at Karlstad University.
2016
107 70 Stockholm, Sweden
Speaker Urban Ahlin, Kirstine von Blixen-Finecke, permanent secretary Svante Lindqvist, and prime minister Stefan Lofven give a press conference announcing the birth of Prince Oscar Carl Olof at the Royal Palace on March 3, 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden. (March 2, 2016 - Source: Michael Campanella/Getty Images Europe)
2016
107 70 Stockholm, Sweden
Speaker Urban Ahlin and Kirstine von Blixen-Finecke give a press conference announcing the birth of Prince Oscar Carl Olof at the Royal Palace on March 3, 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden. (March 2, 2016 - Source: Michael Campanella/Getty Images Europe)
2017
107 70 Stockholm, Sweden
Prime minister Stefan Loefven (L) and speaker of the parliament Urban Ahlin (R) arrive for a thanksgiving service on the occasion of The Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden's 40th birthday celebrations at the Royal Palace on July 14, 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. The celebrations in Stockholm end with the Crown Princess Family being escorted from the Royal Palace to the Royal Stables in a horse drawn carriage. (July 13, 2017 - Source: Michael Campanella/Getty Images Europe)
2017
Hantverkargatan 1, 111 52 Stockholm, Sweden
Nadja Abovich and Urban Ahlin attend the Nobel Prize Banquet 2017 at City Hall on December 10, 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. (Dec. 9, 2017 - Source: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images Europe)
2017
178 02 Drottningholm, Sweden
Speaker of the Swedish Parliament Urban Ahlin and Jenni Ahlin attend the christening of Prince Gabriel of Sweden at Drottningholm Palace Chapel on December 1, 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. (Nov. 30, 2017 - Source: Michael Campanella/Getty Images Europe)
2017
107 70 Stockholm, Sweden
Prime minister Stefan Loefven (L) and speaker of the parliament Urban Ahlin (R) arrive for a thanksgiving service on the occasion of The Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden's 40th birthday celebrations at the Royal Palace on July 14, 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. The celebrations in Stockholm end with the Crown Princess Family being escorted from the Royal Palace to the Royal Stables in a horse drawn carriage. (July 13, 2017 - Source: Michael Campanella/Getty Images Europe)
2017
Hantverkargatan 1, 111 52 Stockholm, Sweden
Urban Ahlin, speaker of the Swedish parliament arrives to an official dinner at Stockholm city hall on May 30, 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. (May 29, 2017 - Source: Michael Campanella/Getty Images Europe)
2017
Sweden
Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and the Speaker of the Riksdag Urban Ahlin attend a seminar at Riksdag in connection with the centenary of Finnish Independence on October 18, 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. (Photo by MICHAEL CAMPANELLA/Getty Images)
2018
Stockholm, Sweden
Urban Ahlin attends a tribute to victims of Stockholm terrorist attack on the first anniversary on April 7, 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden. (April 6, 2018 - Source: Michael Campanella/Getty Images Europe)
2018
178 02 Drottningholm, Sweden
Speaker of the Swedish Parliament Urban Ahlin (R) and Jenni Ahlin attend the christening of Princess Adrienne of Sweden at Drottningholm Palace Chapel on June 8, 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden. (June 7, 2018 - Source: Michael Campanella/Getty Images Europe)
2018
Stockholm, Sweden
Urban Ahlin and Jenni Ahlin attend a tribute to victims of Stockholm terrorist attack on the first anniversary on April 7, 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden. (April 6, 2018 - Source: Michael Campanella/Getty Images Europe)
2016
107 70 Stockholm, Sweden
Speaker Urban Ahlin, Kirstine von Blixen-Finecke, permanent secretary Svante Lindqvist, and prime minister Stefan Lofven give a press conference announcing the birth of Prince Oscar Carl Olof at the Royal Palace on March 3, 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden. (March 2, 2016 - Source: Michael Campanella/Getty Images Europe)
2016
107 70 Stockholm, Sweden
Speaker Urban Ahlin and Kirstine von Blixen-Finecke give a press conference announcing the birth of Prince Oscar Carl Olof at the Royal Palace on March 3, 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden. (March 2, 2016 - Source: Michael Campanella/Getty Images Europe)
2017
107 70 Stockholm, Sweden
Prime minister Stefan Loefven (L) and speaker of the parliament Urban Ahlin (R) arrive for a thanksgiving service on the occasion of The Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden's 40th birthday celebrations at the Royal Palace on July 14, 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. The celebrations in Stockholm end with the Crown Princess Family being escorted from the Royal Palace to the Royal Stables in a horse drawn carriage. (July 13, 2017 - Source: Michael Campanella/Getty Images Europe)
2017
Hantverkargatan 1, 111 52 Stockholm, Sweden
Nadja Abovich and Urban Ahlin attend the Nobel Prize Banquet 2017 at City Hall on December 10, 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. (Dec. 9, 2017 - Source: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images Europe)
2017
178 02 Drottningholm, Sweden
Speaker of the Swedish Parliament Urban Ahlin and Jenni Ahlin attend the christening of Prince Gabriel of Sweden at Drottningholm Palace Chapel on December 1, 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. (Nov. 30, 2017 - Source: Michael Campanella/Getty Images Europe)
2017
107 70 Stockholm, Sweden
Prime minister Stefan Loefven (L) and speaker of the parliament Urban Ahlin (R) arrive for a thanksgiving service on the occasion of The Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden's 40th birthday celebrations at the Royal Palace on July 14, 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. The celebrations in Stockholm end with the Crown Princess Family being escorted from the Royal Palace to the Royal Stables in a horse drawn carriage. (July 13, 2017 - Source: Michael Campanella/Getty Images Europe)
2017
Hantverkargatan 1, 111 52 Stockholm, Sweden
Urban Ahlin, speaker of the Swedish parliament arrives to an official dinner at Stockholm city hall on May 30, 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. (May 29, 2017 - Source: Michael Campanella/Getty Images Europe)
2017
Sweden
Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and the Speaker of the Riksdag Urban Ahlin attend a seminar at Riksdag in connection with the centenary of Finnish Independence on October 18, 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. (Photo by MICHAEL CAMPANELLA/Getty Images)
2018
Stockholm, Sweden
Urban Ahlin attends a tribute to victims of Stockholm terrorist attack on the first anniversary on April 7, 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden. (April 6, 2018 - Source: Michael Campanella/Getty Images Europe)
2018
178 02 Drottningholm, Sweden
Speaker of the Swedish Parliament Urban Ahlin (R) and Jenni Ahlin attend the christening of Princess Adrienne of Sweden at Drottningholm Palace Chapel on June 8, 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden. (June 7, 2018 - Source: Michael Campanella/Getty Images Europe)
2018
Stockholm, Sweden
Urban Ahlin and Jenni Ahlin attend a tribute to victims of Stockholm terrorist attack on the first anniversary on April 7, 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden. (April 6, 2018 - Source: Michael Campanella/Getty Images Europe)
Urban Ahlin
Urban Ahlin
Urban Ahlin
Between 1985 and 1990 Ahlin studied at the specialist teacher-training course at Karlstad University.
Ahlin was born on November 13, 1964, in Mariestad, Skaraborg County, Sweden.
Between 1985 and 1990 Ahlin studied at the specialist teacher-training course at Karlstad University.
From 1981 to 1982, and again from 1984 to 1985, Urban was chairman of the local branch of the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League in Mariestad. Between 1985 and 1990 he was chairman of the Social Democratic Youth League in Skaraborg County. Between 1991 and 1998 he was chairman of the Social Democratic Party in Mariestad, Skaraborg County, and between 1999 and 2002 he was the deputy secretary general of the Social Democratic Party. Since 2005 he is chairman of the Social Democratic Party in Skaraborg County.
Urban worked as a teacher at an upper level elementary school in Mariestad, teaching mathematics and general science, until being elected to the Swedish parliament in 1994. Between 2002 and 2006 Ahlin was chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Swedish parliament. From 2006 to 2014, after the Social Democrats lost power in the 2006 election, he was deputy chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. During this time, Urban Ahlin was the Foreign Policy spokesperson for the Social Democrats in the Swedish Parliament. In Parliament he held a number of different positions. He was a member of the Advisory Council on Foreign Affairs, a member of the War Delegation, and a deputy member of Committee on European Union Affairs. He was also a member of the party board of the Social Democratic Party.
Urban has been the chair of the Socialist group in the OSCE PA, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. He is at the moment the deputy chair of the Swedish delegation to NATO Parliamentary Assembly
Urban Ahlin has been engaged in many mediations and negotiations. In 2007 he managed after extensive meetings and talks to get two Swedish construction workers out from the Iranian prison, Evin, in Tehran. He was the backchannel between Belarus and United States in negotiating the release of the imprisoned presidential candidate in Belarus, Alexander Kozulin. Kozulin was eventually released. Urban Ahlin was also the person behind the scene in the work to release the hostage at the headquarters of the Social Democratic Party in Stockholm. The staff had been taken hostage by a group of young members of PKK as a protest after the arrest of their leader Öcalan. Urban Ahlin was the channel talking directly to the youngsters making them to give up after Ahlin gave a promise to attend the court hearings in Turkey. Which he later did together with the former Swedish minister Carl Lidbom Following the 2014 election, on 29 September 2014 Ahlin was elected Speaker of the Riksdag for the period 2014-2018. He succeeded Per Westerberg in that post.
Urban Ahlin went down in history as a Swedish Social Democratic Party politician who was Speaker of the Riksdag from September 2014 to September 2018. He also served as a Member of the Riksdag (MP) for the Västra Götaland County East constituency from 1994 to 2018. He was formerly Foreign Policy spokesman for the Social Democrats.
Urban Ahlin received the state Order for Merits to Lithuania from President Adamkus in 2005 for his work to extend the international relationship.
Urban Ahlin is and has been a member of many different non-profit organisations. He is a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations ECFR. He is also a member of the Swedish group of Trilateral Commission. He has been a director of the influential American "think and do tank" EastWest Institute. Urban Ahlin is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferations Studies, CSN at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey.
Ahlin married Jenni Ahlin, a journalist at the Mariestads magazine.
(born 1969)
She is a journalist at the Mariestads magazine.
(born 2 August 1951)
He is a Swedish politician who was Speaker of the Riksdag from 2006 to 2014.
(born 6 May 1973)
He is a Swedish Moderate Party politician who has served as Speaker of the Riksdag since September 2018.
