{{Short description|Swedish politician (born 1971)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Mikael Damberg | image = Mikael damberg.riksmotet2016.16d759.1340379.jpg | office = Minister for Finance | term_start = 30 November 2021 | term_end = 18 October 2022 | prime_minister = Magdalena Andersson | predecessor = Magdalena Andersson | successor = Elisabeth Svantesson | office2 = Minister for Home Affairs | term_start2 = 21 January 2019 | term_end2 = 30 November 2021 | predecessor2 = Morgan Johansson | successor2 = Morgan Johansson | prime_minister2 = Stefan Löfven | office3 = Minister for Enterprise | term_start3 = 3 October 2014 | term_end3 = 21 January 2019 | predecessor3 = Annie Lööf | successor3 = Ibrahim Baylan | prime_minister3 = Stefan Löfven | office4 = Leader of the Social Democrats<br>in the Swedish Riksdag | term_start4 = 23 February 2012 | term_end4 = 3 October 2014 | predecessor4 = Carina Moberg | successor4 = Tomas Eneroth | office5 = Member of the Riksdag | term_start5 = 30 September 2002 | term_end5 = 3 October 2014 | constituency5 = Stockholm County | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1971|10|13|df=yes}} | birth_place = Solna, Sweden | death_date = | death_place = | party = Social Democratic | alma_mater = Stockholm University | occupation = Politician | spouse = Ingela Maria Wewertz | profession = | website = | footnotes = | caption = Damberg in 2016 | birth_name = Lars Mikael Damberg | monarch = Carl XVI Gustaf | monarch2 = Carl XVI Gustaf | monarch3 = Carl XVI Gustaf }} '''Lars Mikael Damberg''' ({{Pronunciation|Sv-Mikael Damberg.ogg}} born 13 October 1971) is a Swedish politician of the Social Democratic Party. He served as Minister for Finance from 2021 to 2022. He previously served as Minister for Enterprise from October 2014 to January 2019 and as minister for home affairs from January 2019 to November 2021.
He has been a Member of the Riksdag since 2002, representing Stockholm County, and was leader of the Social Democrats in the Riksdag from 2012 to 2014.<ref name="parl_info">{{cite web |url=http://www.riksdagen.se/Webbnav/index.aspx?nid=1811&iid=014744660015 |title=Mikael Damberg (S) |publisher=Parliament of Sweden |date=16 November 2010 |accessdate=17 November 2010}}</ref>
== Political career and education == Damberg was born in Solna, Stockholm County, Sweden. His father is the former Swedish Social Democratic party treasurer Nils-Gösta Damberg and his mother a former district<ref>[https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/inloggad/damberg-ar-jattestolt-over-att-axla-den-rollen/ "Damberg: Är jättestolt över att axla den rollen"] ''Expressen'' (in Swedish) 16 January 2013. Retrieved 30 May 2021.</ref> chairwoman of the Finnish Social Democratic Youth Riita-Liisa Damberg.<ref name="ab_19990805">{{cite news |title=En rappare tar över SSU |first=Anette |last=Holmqvist |newspaper=Aftonbladet |date=5 August 1998 |url=http://wwwc.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/9908/05/ssu.html |accessdate=17 November 2010 |language=sv}}</ref> Damberg earned a degree in public administration from Stockholm University in 2000.<ref name="cv"/>
== Early career == Between 1995 and 1997, Damberg worked as a political assistant to Minister for Defence Thage G. Peterson, and between 1997 and 1999 as political assistant and speechwriter to Prime Minister Göran Persson.<ref name="cv"/> Between 1999 and 2003, he was chairman of the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League.<ref name="cv"/>
== Political career == Damberg joined the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League in the late 1980s and served as a member of the board of the organization between 1993 and 1997.<ref name="cv">{{cite web |url=http://www.socialdemokraterna.se/upload/Gruppledare/Mikael_damberg/CV/Mikael%20Damberg%20CV%20engelska%5b1%5d.pdf |title=CV |publisher=Mikael Damberg/Swedish Social Democratic Party |accessdate=4 October 2014}}</ref> He also served as a member of the municipal council in Solna Municipality between 1991 and 2002.<ref name="cv"/> He is chairman of the Social Democratic party district in Stockholm County since 2004.<ref name="cv"/>{{update inline|date=May 2021}}
=== Member of the Swedish Parliament, 2002–present === Damberg has served as a member of the Swedish parliament since 2002, representing the Stockholm County constituency.<ref name="parl_info"/> In the parliament he served as deputy chairman of the Committee on Education and as a member of the War Delegation.<ref name="parl_info"/> He has served as a member of the Committee on Education since 2002.<ref name="parl_info"/> He previously served as a deputy member of the Committee on Defence between 2002 and 2006, and as a deputy member of the Committee on Finance between 2006 and 2010.<ref name="parl_info"/>
=== Minister of Enterprise === Damberg was appointed Minister for Enterprise on 3 October 2014, serving in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stefan Löfven.<ref>Cynthia Kroet (6 October 2014), [https://www.politico.eu/article/lofven-unveils-swedish-government/ Löfven unveils Swedish government] ''Politico Europe''.</ref>
In this capacity, Damberg put forward a 2016 bill stipulating at least 40 percent of board members of listed firms should be women by 2019 at the latest;<ref>Johan Ahlander and Niklas Pollard (9 September 2016), [https://www.reuters.com/article/sweden-board-idINKCN11F1X0 Swedish govt says to propose gender quota law for listed firms - report] ''Reuters''.</ref> however, the government later decided to not go ahead with the proposal.<ref>Cynthia Kroet (12 January 2017), [https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-drops-female-board-members-quota/ Sweden drops female board members quota] ''Politico Europe''.</ref>
Also in 2016, Damberg approved Vattenfall’s decision to sell its loss-making lignite coal mines and associated power plants in Germany to Czech investor EPH.<ref>Jan Lopatka and Arno Schuetze (8 April 2016), [https://www.reuters.com/article/sweden-board-idINKCN11F1X0 Swedish govt says to propose gender quota law for listed firms - report] ''Reuters''.</ref> In 2018, he approved an application from Nord Stream 2 to lay two gas pipelines through its economic zone in the Baltic Sea.<ref>Johan Sennero (7 June 2018), [https://www.reuters.com/article/sweden-nordstream-idAFL5N1T93UA Sweden approves Nord Stream 2 pipeline application] ''Reuters''.</ref> In August 2018, Damberg visited the crime scene where Karolin Hakim was killed by a gang member.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/kvinna-i-malmo-ihjalskjuten-detta-har-hant|title=Kvinna i Malmö ihjälskjuten – detta har hänt|last=Haddad|first=Prescilia|date=2019-08-27|access-date=2019-10-04|language=sv}}</ref>
Damberg also attended the Bilderberg Meeting in 2015 in Telfs-Buchen, Austria.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/participants2015.html |title=Bilderberg Meeting |access-date=2015-07-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623005615/http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/participants2015.html |archive-date=2015-06-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
=== Minister for Home Affairs === Damberg was later appointed minister for home affairs on 21 January 2019 in the second Löfven Cabinet.
Early in his tenure, Damberg coordinated the Swedish government’s efforts seeking support from European allies for a new international tribunal to prosecute Islamic State fighters and military personnel for war crimes perpetrated in Iraq and Syria, modelled on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Among others, he visited counterparts in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands to lobby support for the proposal.<ref>Helen Warrell (19 May 2019), [https://www.ft.com/content/9086250e-7802-11e9-bbad-7c18c0ea0201 Sweden proposes international tribunal to try Isis fighters] ''Financial Times''.</ref>
When Dan Eliasson, the head of Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), was reported to have holidayed with family on Gran Canaria in violation of guidelines propagated by his own agency against unnecessary travel amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden, Damberg asked for his resignation.<ref>Charlie Duxbury (5 January 2021), [https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-coronavirus-lockdown-lapses-public-anger/ Swedes fume at leaders’ lockdown lapses] ''Politico Europe''.</ref>
Also during his time in office, Damberg led efforts in 2021 to give police greater powers to access mobile communications data, including conversations using apps like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp.<ref>Simon Johnson (4 August 2021), [https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-widen-police-data-access-powers-fight-gang-violence-2021-08-04/ Sweden to widen police data-access powers to fight gang violence] ''Reuters''.</ref> That same year, he appointed a commission to look at measures including the expansion of secret, preventative surveillance of suspects, currently only allowed in cases related to national security.<ref>Simon Johnson (27 August 2021), [https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-looks-allowing-police-spy-suspected-gangs-tackle-gun-violence-2021-08-27/ Sweden looks at allowing police to spy on suspected gangs to tackle gun violence] ''Reuters''.</ref>
=== Minister of Finance === Damberg was appointed Minister of Finance on 30 November 2021 after Magdalena Andersson became prime minister.
== Other activities == * Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2021–2022)<ref>[https://www.aiib.org/en/about-aiib/governance/board-governors/index.html Board of Governors] Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).</ref> * European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2021–2022)<ref>[http://www.ebrd.com/shareholders-and-board-of-governors.html Board of Governors] European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).</ref> * European Investment Bank (EIB), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2021–2022)<ref>[https://www.eib.org/en/about/governance-and-structure/statutory-bodies/board-governors/members/mikael-damberg.htm Board of Governors: Mikael Damberg] European Investment Bank (EIB).</ref> * Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), World Bank Group, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2021–2022)<ref>[https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/74f5b30623436ec21c47216433e5a2aa-0330032021/original/MIGAGovernors.pdf Board of Governors, as of 5 January 2022] Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) World Bank Group 1 November 2021</ref> * Nordic Investment Bank (NIB), Ex-Officio Chairwoman of the Board of Governors (2021–2022)<ref>[https://www.nib.int/who-we-are/about/member-countries-governing-bodies-and-capital/board-of-governors Board of Governors] Nordic Investment Bank (NIB).</ref> * World Bank, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2021–2022)<ref>[https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/45fc8267f59fdf50a364f6538c2817e7-0330032021/original/BankGovernors.pdf Board of Governors, as of 5 January 2022] World Bank.</ref>
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == {{Wikiquote}} * [http://www.socialdemokraterna.se/mikaeldamberg Mikael Damberg] at the Swedish Social Democratic Party * [http://www.riksdagen.se/Webbnav/index.aspx?nid=1811&iid=014744660015 Mikael Damberg] at the Swedish parliament
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