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Stefan Attefall

Stefan Attefall
Stefan Attefall at the 2014 Riksdag Opening Session on 29 September 2014.
Governor of Uppsala County
Incumbent
Assumed office
20 April 2023
MonarchCarl XVI Gustaf
Prime MinisterUlf Kristersson
Preceded byGöran Enander
Minister for Public Administration
In office
5 October 2010 – 3 October 2014
MonarchCarl XVI Gustaf
Prime MinisterFredrik Reinfeldt
Preceded byMats Odell
Succeeded byArdalan Shekarabi
Minister for Housing
In office
5 October 2010 – 3 October 2014
MonarchCarl XVI Gustaf
Prime MinisterFredrik Reinfeldt
Preceded byMats Odell
Succeeded byMehmet Kaplan
Member of the Riksdag
In office
30 September 1991 – 3 October 1994
ConstituencyJönköping County
In office
5 October 1998 – 29 September 2014
ConstituencyJönköping County
Personal details
Born (1960-08-21) 21 August 1960 (age 64)
Lycksele, Västerbotten
Political partyChristian Democrats
SpouseCecilia Attefall
Children3
OccupationPolitician, Contributing editor
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata

Jan Stefan Attefall (born 21 August 1960, in Lycksele, Västerbotten County) is a Swedish politician and civil servant who currently serves as Governor of Uppsala County since 2023.[1] He previously served as Minister for Public Administration and Minister for Housing from 2010 to 2014.[2] He is a member of the Christian Democrats.

Biography

Attefall has a bachelor's degree in political science and economics from Umeå University. He is the son of the boat builder Konrad Lindström and adopted mother Solveig's Attefall. His brother Anders Sellström is also a Christian Democratic politician. Attefall joined KDS in his teens and soon received political assignments.

Attefall was union chairman of the Christian Democratic Youth Union 1986–1989. Attefall was Member of the Riksdag from 1991 to 1994 and from 1998 to 2014.[3] In the Riksdag, Attefall served as parliamentary group leader of his party from 2002 to 2010 and as chairman of the Committee on Finance from 2006 to 2010.

His name is associated with the Attefall house, a larger version of the friggebod.[4]

Elected chairman of RIO (Rörelsefolkhögskolornas intresseorganisation) in 2017.[5]

Personal life

Attefall married the psychologist Karin Hansson (born 1958) in 1986, later divorced, married for the second time in 1996 to the journalist Cecilia Hjorth Attefall (born 1967),[6] who is chairman of Erikshjälpen and chairman of the senior citizens' committee in Jönköping Municipality. They have three children together, a son and two daughters. The family lives in Jönköping.

References

  1. ^ "Stefan Attefall ny landshövding i Uppsala län" (in Swedish). Regeringen och Regeringskansliet. 2023-03-02. Retrieved 2023-04-28.
  2. ^ "Stefan Attefall". Swedish Government Offices. Retrieved 2011-01-11.
  3. ^ "Stefan Attefall (kd)". Sveriges Riksdag. Retrieved 2010-01-29."Stefan Attefall (kd)". Aftonbladet. Retrieved 2010-04-01.
  4. ^ Jorner, Björn (4 June 2014). "Riksdagen sade ja till Attefallshus". Svenska Dagbladet. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
  5. ^ "Stefan Attefall vald som ny ordförande för RIO". www.sverigesfolkhogskolor.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2022-05-15.
  6. ^ "Cecilia Hjorth Attefall". Attefall.com (in Swedish). Retrieved 2022-05-15.
Preceded by Governor of Uppsala County
2023–present 		Succeeded by
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