Ewa Björling

Ewa Björling is a dentist, Doctor of Medicine and a docent in virology. Prior to her election to the Swedish parliament in 2002, she worked as a lecturer at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. She was also a member of the municipal council in Ekerö Municipality from 1999 to 2006, and served as its chairman from 2005 to 2006. She was elected a Member of Parliament in 2002 and served in the parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. She was also a substitute in the Committee on the Constitution, the Committee on Education and the Advisory Council on Foreign Affairs.

She was a member of the board of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency from 2003 to 2007. She was also chairman of the Swedish National Council for Coordination of Efforts Against HIV/AIDS in 2007, and Europe's representative in the Inter-Parliamentary Union's working group on HIV/AIDS. Björling has promoted the use of contraception in Malta, a country which maintains solid links to the Roman Catholic Church.[1]

In November, 2012 Björling traveled with two Swedish trade delegations to discuss increasing bi-lateral trade[2] between Sweden and war-torn country of Myanmar, despite an existing EU arms embargo against Myanmar.[3] Björling was later questioned by the Swedish Parliament regarding the discovery of Swedish made Carl Gustav recoilless rifles found in Myanmar in December, 2012.[3][4]

Following the 2010 general election, Björling also took office as Minister for Nordic Cooperation. She made mining one of the areas of Nordic cooperation.[5]

In 2006 Björling was awarded with the "Jerusalem Prize" from the Zionist Federation in Sweden.[6] The award is given to persons who has shown "extraordinary support for Israel, Jerusalem and Zionism".[6]

Ewa Björling is married and has two children. She lives on the island of Ekerö west of Stockholm.

• Frihandelsministern, blog
• Ewa Björling at the Government Offices of Sweden