Alice Bah Kuhnke

Bah grew up in Horda in Småland, Sweden, the daughter of a Gambian father and a Swedish mother. She attended a track-and-field-oriented high school in Växjö and was one of the country's best female sprinters in the late 1980s, with the 200-meter dash her speciality.[4][5]

Bah's television career began with SVT's "Disney Club" in 1992. Between 1998 and 1999, she had her own talk show at TV4[6] and many other television assignments, including the current-event show "Kalla fakta".[7]

Already in 1994, Bah campaigned actively for her country to join the EU in a referendum.[8] After leaving television to study political science, she headed a philanthropic fund at the Swedish insurance company Skandia.[9] From 2004 to 2007, she worked as Secretary General of the fair trade organization Rättvisemärkt.[6]

Bah was a member of the Swedish Church synod from 2006 until 2010,[10] a member of the board of the Royal Dramatic Theater,[11] and Vice President of YMCA-YWCA Sweden.[12]

In September 2009, Bah took the position of manager of environmental quality and corporate social responsibility at ÅF.[13] Alongside that job, she served on the board of a small[14] internet design firm, Doberman.[15]

On 3 October 2014, Bah was appointed Minister of Culture in the Löfven Cabinet.[16] In addition to her role in government, she served as the Green Party's representative at the European Green Party from 2016.

In her late teens, Bah was engaged for two years to long jump Olympic finalist and World Silver Medalist Mattias Sunneborn.[19] In 1998, she married TV personality Henrik Johnsson, from whom she was divorced in 2002.[20] The following year, she married actor and singer Johannes Bah Kuhnke,[20] with whom she has three daughters.[19]