Stefan Attefall

{{Short description|Swedish politician (born 1960)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Stefan Attefall | image = Stefan Attefall, 2014.jpg | image_size = 250px | caption = Stefan Attefall at the 2014 Riksdag Opening Session on 29 September 2014. | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|8|21|df=y}} | birth_place = Lycksele, Västerbotten | death_date = | death_place = | office = Governor of Uppsala County | monarch = Carl XVI Gustaf | term_start = 20 April 2023 | prime_minister = Ulf Kristersson | predecessor = Göran Enander | successor = | office2 = Minister for Public Administration | monarch2 = Carl XVI Gustaf | term_start2 = 5 October 2010 | term_end2 = 3 October 2014 | prime_minister2 = Fredrik Reinfeldt | predecessor2 = Mats Odell | successor2 = Ardalan Shekarabi | office3 = Minister for Housing | monarch3 = Carl XVI Gustaf | term_start3 = 5 October 2010 | term_end3 = 3 October 2014 | prime_minister3 = Fredrik Reinfeldt | predecessor3 = Mats Odell | successor3 = Mehmet Kaplan | office4 = Member of the Riksdag | term_start4 = 30 September 1991 | term_end4 = 3 October 1994 | term_start5 = 5 October 1998 | term_end5 = 29 September 2014 | constituency4 = Jönköping County | constituency5 = Jönköping County | party = Christian Democrats | occupation = Politician, Contributing editor | majority = | relations = | spouse = Cecilia Attefall | children = 3 | website = {{official website}} | footnotes = }} '''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.<ref name="Regeringen och Regeringskansliet 2023">{{cite web | title=Stefan Attefall ny landshövding i Uppsala län | publisher=Regeringen och Regeringskansliet | date=2023-03-02 | url=https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2023/03/stefan-attefall-ny-landshovding-i-uppsala-lan/ | language=sv | access-date=2023-04-28}}</ref> He previously served as Minister for Public Administration and Minister for Housing from 2010 to 2014.<ref name=attefall1>{{cite web| url = http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/13493 | title = Stefan Attefall | accessdate = 2011-01-11 | publisher = Swedish Government Offices}}</ref> 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.<ref name=attefall>{{cite web| url = http://www.riksdagen.se/Webbnav/index.aspx?nid=1111&iid=0745549193810 | title = Stefan Attefall (kd) | accessdate = 2010-01-29 | publisher = Sveriges Riksdag}}{{cite news| url = http://www.aftonbladet.se/sommarisverige/article5231827.ab | title = Stefan Attefall (kd) | accessdate = 2010-04-01 | newspaper = Aftonbladet}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.svd.se/naringsliv/riksdagen-sade-ja-till-attefallshus_3629932.svd | title=Riksdagen sade ja till Attefallshus | date=4 June 2014 | agency=Svenska Dagbladet | accessdate=22 June 2014 | author=Jorner, Björn}}</ref>

Elected chairman of RIO (Rörelsefolkhögskolornas intresseorganisation) in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stefan Attefall vald som ny ordförande för RIO |url=http://www.sverigesfolkhogskolor.se/vara-organisationer/rio/nyheter/stefan-attefall-vald-som-ny-ordforande-for-rio/ |access-date=2022-05-15 |website=www.sverigesfolkhogskolor.se |language=sv}}</ref>

== 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),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cecilia Hjorth Attefall |url=https://www.attefall.com/cecilia/ |access-date=2022-05-15 |website=Attefall.com |date=25 May 2018 |language=sv-SE}}</ref> 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.

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==External links==  * {{Official website}}

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