Håkan Juholt
| Håkan Juholt | |
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Håkan Juholt in March 2011
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| Ambassador to the Republic of Iceland | |
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Taking office 1 September 2017 |
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| Succeeding | Bosse Hedberg |
| Leader of the Social Democrats | |
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In office 25 March 2011 – 21 January 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Mona Sahlin |
| Succeeded by | Stefan Löfven |
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Member of the Swedish Riksdag for Kalmar County |
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In office 1994–2016 |
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| Personal details | |
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16 September 1962 Oskarshamn, Kalmar County, Sweden |
| Political party | Social Democrats |
| Spouse(s) | Anneli Juholt (divorced) Åsa Lindgren (m. 2014-present) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Södertornskolan |
| Profession | Journalist Photographer |
Håkan Juholt (born 16 September 1962) is a Swedish politician who was Leader of the Social Democrats from 2011 to 2012. He was member of the Swedish parliament from 1994 to 2016, representing Kalmar län. On 26 January 2017, Juholt was selected to be Sweden's next Ambassador to the Republic of Iceland.
He is a native of Oskarshamn, a town of 17,000 on the Baltic Sea and the site of a nuclear power plant. His father worked in Oskarshamn as a printer and was a union man. His maternal grandfather was the artist Arvid Källström (1893–1967). After finishing grammar school (en‑GB) / high school (en‑US), he was hired in 1980 as a photographer and journalist for the Social Democratic Kalmar newspaper Östra Småland (Östran), where he is still formally employed but on leave since elected to parliament in 1994. In the early 1980s, he reported for the newspaper from the Solidarity movement in Poland.
From 1984 to 1990 he was a board member of the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League (SSU). In 1994 he was elected to parliament. In 2004 he was appointed assistant party secretary. In the spring of 2009 he temporarily was the party secretary after Marita Ulvskog resigned and before Ibrahim Baylan took over. Until he became party leader, he was regional chairman of the Social Democrats of Kalmar län. He's chairman of the board for Oskarshamn's harbour, John Lindgren's peace fund, Tage Erlander's memorial fund and of the ownership board for the Östra Småland newspaper.
He is the party's spokesperson on defence policy. From 1995 he was a member of the joint parliament-government committee on defence policy (försvarsberedningen), and its chairman in 2000–2007. From 1996 to 2011, he was a member of the parliamentary committee on defence issues (försvarsutskottet), and served as its chairman 2010–2011. He was a delegate to the parliamentarian summits of NATO in 1995 and Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in 1996.
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