{{Short description|Swedish politician (born 1945)}} {{for|the Swedish Olympic archer|Kristina Persson-Nordlander}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | birth_name = Inger Kristina Persson | image = Kristina Persson.jpg | image_size = 250px | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|4|16|df=y}} | birth_place = Östersund, Sweden | death_date = | death_place = | office = Minister for Nordic Cooperation | term_start = 3 October 2014 | term_end = 25 May 2016 | monarch = Carl XVI Gustaf | prime_minister = Stefan Löfven | predecessor = Ewa Björling | successor = Margot Wallström | office2 = Minister for Strategic Development | term_start2 = 3 October 2014 | term_end2 = 25 May 2016 | monarch2 = Carl XVI Gustaf | prime_minister2 = Stefan Löfven | predecessor2 = ''Office created'' | successor2 = ''Office abolished'' | party = Social Democrats | occupation = Economist | spouse = | children = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Kristina Persson''' (born 16 April 1945) is a Swedish politician of the Social Democrats.<ref name="kristina">{{cite AV media|url=http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=78&artikel=5981730|title=Jämtlands förre landshövding Kristina Persson blir ny minister|publisher=Sveriges Radio|access-date=5 October 2014|archive-date=6 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006132516/http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=78&artikel=5981730|url-status=live}}</ref> She served as Minister for Nordic Cooperation and Minister for Strategic Development, under Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, from October 2014 to May 2016.<ref name="kristina"/>
==Career== Persson started her career in the Ministry of Finance in 1971, moved to the Secretariat for Future Studies and then spent the 1980s in the trade union movement – first at the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO), then at the LO-TCO Secretariat of International Trade Union Development, later at the Council of Nordic Trade Unions (NFS) secretariat, and finally at the Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees (TCO). During the 1990s, she was an MP and then an MEP, before becoming a county governor and deputy governor of the Swedish central bank. From 2007 she led the think tank Global Challenge, which she had founded herself.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nordiclabourjournal.org/artikler/portrett/portrait-2015/article.2015-01-29.7607548889 |title=Minister for Strategic Development Kristina Persson: make the Arctic "green" — Nordic Labour Journal |publisher=Nordiclabourjournal.org |date=7 February 2015 |accessdate=20 March 2015 |archive-date=27 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150227200519/http://www.nordiclabourjournal.org/artikler/portrett/portrait-2015/article.2015-01-29.7607548889/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Other activities== *European Policy Centre (EPC), Member of the Strategic Council<ref>[http://www.epc.eu/about_council.php Strategic Council] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422084054/http://www.epc.eu/about_council.php |date=22 April 2019 }} European Policy Centre (EPC).</ref>
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==External links== *{{Commons category-inline|Kristina Persson}}
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