Anitra Steen

Anitra Steen Linnéa ( born May 13, 1949 in Fagersta ) is a Swedish entrepreneur and politician ( Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetareparti ).

Steen worked from 1981 as a civil servant in the Swedish Ministry of Finance. From 1989 to 1991 she was State Secretary in the Ministry of Education from 1994 to 1995 as Secretary of State in the Ministry of Finance. Then it was generaldirektör the Skatteverket. From 1999 to 2009 she was chairman of the Swedish state alcohol monopoly Systembolaget company. In May 2009, she went to age into retirement.

Since 2003 she has been married to Göran Persson, who was Prime Minister of Sweden until 2006, and they had met in the common time in the Treasury.

Steen is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences since 1996.