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Anna Kinberg Batra

Anna Kinberg Batra
MP
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Leader of the Opposition
Assumed office
10 January 2015
Monarch Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime Minister Stefan Löfven
Preceded by Fredrik Reinfeldt
Leader of the Moderate Party
Assumed office
10 January 2015
Deputy Peter Danielsson
Party Secretary Tomas Tobé
Preceded by Fredrik Reinfeldt
Leader of the Moderate Party in the Riksdag
In office
4 October 2010 – 14 January 2015
Leader Fredrik Reinfeldt
Preceded by Lars Lindblad
Succeeded by Jessica Polfjärd
Member of the Riksdag
Assumed office
17 September 2006
Constituency
Personal details
Born Anna Maria Kinberg
(1970-04-14) 14 April 1970 (age 46)
Skärholmen, Sweden
Political party Moderate Party
Spouse(s) David Batra
Children 1
Alma mater

Anna Maria Kinberg Batra (Swedish pronunciation: [²an.na ²ɕɪn.bærj ˈbɑːtra]; née Kinberg, born 14 April 1970) is a Swedish Moderate Party politician who has been Leader of Moderate Party and Leader of the Opposition since January 2015. She has been a Member of the Riksdag for since 2006.

She was chairman of the Committee on European Union Affairs from 2007 to 2010 and chairman of the Committee on Finance from 2010 to 2014.

On 9 December 2014, the Moderate Party's nomination committee nominated Anna Kinberg Batra to succeed Fredrik Reinfeldt as party leader. She was elected to the position at the party congress on 10 January 2015.

Anna Kinberg was born in Skärholmen. In 1974 Kinberg and her family moved to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as her father worked for Merrill Lynch's Amsterdam office. Kinberg Batra speaks fluent Dutch after her years in the country. They moved back to Sweden in 1980, settling in Djursholm where Kinberg Batra spent the rest of upbringing. She is a graduate from the . She has also studied foreign languages and political science at . She was active in student politics as chairman of the , and as the first female chairman of the Moderate Youth League in .


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