Lena Hallengren

Lena Hallengren
Hallengren in 2020
Minister for Health and Social Affairs
In office 21 January 2019 – 6 October 2022
Monarch	Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime Minister	Stefan Löfven Magdalena Andersson
Preceded by	Annika Strandhäll
Succeeded by	Ardalan Shekarabi
Minister for Children and the Elderly
In office 8 March 2018 – 21 January 2019
Monarch	Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime Minister	Stefan Löfven
Preceded by	Åsa Regnér
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Minister for Gender Equality
In office 8 March 2018 – 21 January 2019
Monarch	Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime Minister	Stefan Löfven
Preceded by	Åsa Regnér
Succeeded by	Åsa Lindhagen
Minister of Preschool Education, Adult Education and Youth
In office 21 October 2002 – 6 October 2006
Prime Minister	Göran Persson
Preceded by	Ingegerd Wärnersson
Succeeded by	Jan Björklund (Minister of Schools)
Member of the Riksdag
In office 2 October 2006 – 3 August 2018
Constituency	Kalmar County
Personal details
Born	(1973-12-25) 25 December 1973 Kalmar, Sweden
Political party	Social Democrats

Lena Ingeborg Hallengren (born 25 December 1973) is a Swedish politician of the Social Democratic Party who has been served as Minister for Health and Social Affairs in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stefan Löfven from 21 January 2019 until he left office in November 2021. Hallengren then continued in the same role in the Andersson Cabinet.

Political career

In the government of Prime Minister Göran Persson, Hallengren served as Deputy Minister of Education, in charge of preschool education, youth affairs and adult learning, from 2002 to 2006.

Hallengren has been a member of the Riksdag since the 2006 elections. In that capacity, she served as member of the Member of the Committee on Environment and Agriculture (2006-2009) and later chaired the Committee on Transport and Communications (2009-2010) and the Committee on Education (2014–2018).

In March 2018, Hallengren became Minister for Children, the Elderly and Equality after her predecessor Åsa Regnér left the government for a post in the United Nations. This was an office at the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs in the first Löfven Cabinet. At the formation of the second cabinet under prime minister Stefan Löfven in January 2019, Hallengren was promoted to head of the same ministry. In September 2022, Hallengren was elected as leader for the Social Democrats in the Riksdag. Subsequently, she resigned in October 2022 from her office as Minister for Health and Social Affairs.

Since 2020, Hallengren has also been a member of the Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance, co-chaired by Sheikh Hasina and Mia Mottley.

Other activities

• Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, Member of the Board (since 2018)

• Participant at Bilderberg meeting in Washington D.C., 2 June–5 June 2022

External links

• Lena Hallengren at the Riksdag website
• Lena Hallengren at the website of the Swedish government