Maj-Inger Klingvall

Maj-Inger Klingvall
Klingvall at Nordic Forum in Malmö, Sweden in June 2014
Minister of Health and Social Affairs
In office 29 October 1998 – 16 November 1998
Prime Minister	Göran Persson
Preceded by	Anders Sundström
Succeeded by	Lars Engqvist
Minister for International Development Cooperation
In office 14 September 1999 – 16 November 2001
Prime Minister	Göran Persson
Preceded by	Pierre Schori
Succeeded by	Jan O. Karlsson
Minister for Migration
In office 14 September 1999 – 16 November 2001
Prime Minister	Göran Persson
Preceded by	Pierre Schori
Succeeded by	Jan O. Karlsson
Personal details
Born	(1946-05-15) 15 May 1946 Nyköping, Sweden
Political party	Social Democratic Party

Maj-Inger Klingvall (born 15 May 1946) is a Swedish Social Democratic Party politician, who's serving as a member of the Riksdag, Minister of Health and Social Affairs, Minister for International Development Cooperation, and Minister for Migration. She was statsråd from 1996 to 2002.

Biography

Klingvall was born in Nyköping to Sven Ohlsson and Elsa Karlsson, and married Rolf Klingvall in 1967.

Klingvall became a bachelor of arts at Stockholm University in 1970 and a master's of social science degree at Linköping University in 1972.

She worked as a secretary at Östergötland County Council 1973–1975 and then at Norrköping Municipality, in 1975–1976 as secretary and 1977–1985 as political secretary. She was a member of the Norrköping City Council from 1977 to 1996. From 1986 to 1988 she was a municipal politician as a member of the municipal board and first vice chairman of the social committee with special responsibility for child, individual and family care. Klingvall was a member of the Riksdag for Östergötland County constituency from 1988 to 2002. She was a member of the Committee on Social Insurance 1991–1994 and chair of the Committee on Health and Welfare 1994–1996. She has also been a deputy in the Committee on Civil Law and the Committee on Cultural Affairs and a member of the War Delegation.

Klingvall was Minister of State in the Persson Cabinet from 1996 to 2001, first Minister for Social Security at the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs 1996–1999 and then Minister for International Development Cooperation at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs 1999–2001. For a short period after Margot Wallström's resignation in 1998, she was acting Health minister.

Klingvall was a board member of the Social Democratic Women in Sweden from 1975 and sat on the union's executive committee 1984–1995. She was a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party board from 1990 and sat on the executive committee from 1996 to 2001.

She chose to leave the government in November 2001 after the Social Democratic Party Congress did not give her renewed confidence in the party's executive committee.

In 2010, Klingvall together with Gabriele Winai Ström published a book about female Swedish diplomats entitled Från Myrdal till Lindh: svenska diplomatprofiler.

Maj-Inger Klingvall was married to Rolf Klingvall, from 1967, but they later divorced.