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Margaretha af Ugglas

Swedish politician

Field	Value
name	Margaretha af Ugglas
office	Minister for Foreign Affairs
term_start	4 October 1991
term_end	7 October 1994
monarch	Carl XVI Gustaf
primeminister	Carl Bildt
predecessor	Sten Andersson
successor	Lena Hjelm-Wallén
constituency_MP2	Moderate Party
parliament2	Swedish
term_start2	1974
term_end2	1995
birth_name	Märta Margaretha Stenbeck
birth_date
birth_place	Stockholm, Sweden
death_date
nationality	Swedish
party	Moderate Party
spouse
partner
parents
mother
father	Hugo Stenbeck
relatives	Jan Stenbeck (brother)
alma_mater	Stockholm School of Economics
Harvard Business School
occupation	Politician

Harvard Business School

Märta Margaretha af Ugglas (; born 5 January 1939) is a Swedish former Moderate Party politician. She was minister for foreign affairs between 1991 and 1994.

Early life

She is the daughter of Hugo Stenbeck, a lawyer and the founder of Investment AB Kinnevik, and his wife Märta (née Odelfeldt). She was the sister of Hugo Jr (1933–1976), Elisabeth Silfverstolpe (1935–1985) and Jan Stenbeck (1942–2002). af Ugglas fought a bitter feud with her brother Jan over the family fortune, and subsequently withdrew from her brother and Kinnevik.

Career

af Ugglas attended the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration from 1960 to 1971 and graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics in 1964 with a degree in business administration and economics (Civilekonom). She then worked for Veckans Affärer from 1967 to 1968 and Svenska Dagbladet from 1968 to 1973 as an editorial writer. She was a member of the Stockholm County Council from 1971 to 1973, was publisher of the Svensk tidskrift from 1980 to 1991, and was a member of parliament between 1974 and 1995.

After the election victory in September 1991, Margaretha af Ugglas became Sweden's second female minister for foreign affairs. Her term included the finalisation of the negotiations leading up to Sweden's entry into the European Union. In 1992, together with an EU Commissioner and nine other ministers of foreign affairs from the Baltic Sea area, she founded the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) and the EuroFaculty. af Ugglas served as the Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE from 1992 to 1993. The Moderate Party lost the 1994 election and she was elected to the European Parliament in 1995. She was vice chairman of the European People's Party from 1996.

She was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, a board member of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and a delegate of the Council of Europe. Furthermore, af Ugglas was board member of the Bulten-Kanthal AB, Investment AB Kinnevik Boliden AB, Swedish Match AB and Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AB. She was chairman of the Save the Children's Stockholm Association, the Swedish Women's Voluntary Defence Organization and the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation from 2002 to 2010.

Personal life

In 1966 she married Bertil af Ugglas (1934–1977), the son of Commander Oscar af Ugglas and Ingeborg (née Lewenhaupt).

Awards and decorations

[[File:EST_Order_of_the_Cross_of_Terra_Mariana_-_1st_Class_BAR.svg|50x50px]] Estonia 1st Class of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana (9 February 2000)

References

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"Mrs Margaretha af UGGLAS". [[Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe]].
(1988). "Vem är hon: kvinnor i Sverige: biografisk uppslagsbok [1988]". Norstedt.
Nilsson, Kerstin. (17 March 2015). "Ärvde miljarder – och olycka". [[Aftonbladet]].
"Margaretha af UGGLAS {{!}} History of parliamentary service {{!}} MEPs {{!}} European Parliament". European Parliament.
"The 1995 enlargement of the European Union: The accession of Finland and Sweden – Think Tank". European Parliament.
Kristensen, Gustav N.. (2010). "Born into a Dream. EuroFaculty and the Council of the Baltic Sea States". Berliner Wissentshafts-Verlag.
"Your MEPs: Margaretha af UGGLAS". [[European Parliament]].
(1976). "Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1977". Norstedt.
(1984). "Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1985". Norstedt.
(2010). "Margaretha af Ugglas avtackades av Gunilla Carlsson". [[Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation]].
(1996). "Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1997". Norstedt.
(9 February 2000). "President of the Republic awards decorations to 168 people". Office of the President of the Republic.

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