Margaretha af Ugglas

Baroness ( Friherrinna ) Marta Margaretha af Ugglas (birth name: Marta Margaretha Stenbeck, born January 5, 1939 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish business manager and politician of the Moderate Party ( Moderata samlingspartiet ).

Biography

After school she started in 1961 to study business administration and was occasionally a guest student in the United States with a grant from the Harvard - Radcliffe Program. After returning to Sweden, she continued her studies at the Stockholm School and graduated in 1964 as an economist. Between 1966 and 1967 she worked in the business newspaper Veckans Affärer.

Later she moved to the private sector and was from 1970 to 1983 member of the board of the investment company AB Kinnevik and at the same time from 1970 to 1974 of Sandvik AB, one of the largest industrial companies in Sweden. In addition, she was a member of the boards of tussocks - Kanthal AB (1972 to 1980), the mining company Boliden AB ( 1978-1985 ) and since 1979 the tobacco and match manufacturer Swedish Match.

She also became a member of the Moderate samlingspartiet in whose management bodies they ascended. Between 1974 and 1995, she represented the interests of the Moderate party in the Reichstag. During this time she was initially 1982-1983 deputy member, then to 1986 and finally a member from 1986 to 1992 again a deputy member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council.

On October 4 1991 she was appointed by Prime Minister Carl Bildt, Minister of Foreign Affairs and held that office until the end of Bildt's term of office on October 7, 1994.

During her tenure she was from 1 January to 31 December 1993 amtiertende chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE ), as well as chairman of the Committee of Ministers.

On 20 June 1994 a group of 40 Balts, the Swedish King Karl Gustav received the Royal Palace of Stockholm; during the reception apologized to the Foreign Minister Margaretha af Ugglas on behalf of the government for the hasty and erroneous decision on the extradition of Baltic from Sweden after the end of World War II.

After leaving the government, she was between October 1994 and January 1995 Vice- Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Reichstag.

Between January and October 1995, she was a member of the 4th European Parliament and was there as a representative of the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats ) Member of the Foreign, security and defense policy.