Ã…sa Westlund

Åsa Westlund ( born May 19, 1976 in Anderstorp ) is a Swedish politician (SAP).

Westlund studied in Gothenburg Political Science ( Political Science ) and Jura and was at this time a member of the Executive Board of the local student council and committees of the Association of Students of Sweden. She then worked as a political expert at the Ministry of Education as well as political secretary of the board of SAP.

At SAP Westlund was, among other assessor in the district board in the district of Gothenburg, the party executive committee member and on the Executive Committee and coordinator of the Women's Network. Since 2004 she is deputy member of the Executive Board of SAP in Stockholm County.

Politically Westlund worked as a deputy member of the Committee on Health Services in the district of Västra Götaland, later., As a member of the Social Committee and the Subcommittee on Labor and Social Affairs in their home community Haninge and a substitute member of the Committee on Regional Planning and Transport of the Provincial Council of Stockholm County In 2004 she became a member of the Swedish Constitution Committee. Since this year, it belongs to the European Parliament.

MEP

In the period from 2009 to 2014 Westlund is a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council.

As a deputy she is the Development Committee and the Delegation to the ACP -EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.