Jessica Polfjärd

Jessica Polfjärd
Official portrait, 2024
Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office
2 July 2019
ConstituencySweden
President of the Nordic Council
In office
1 January 2019 – 13 June 2019
Preceded byMichael Tetzschner
Succeeded byHans Wallmark
Group Leader of the Moderate Party
in the Swedish Riksdag
In office
14 January 2015 – 3 October 2017
DeputyHans Wallmark
Party chairmanAnna Kinberg Batra
Preceded byAnna Kinberg Batra
Succeeded byTobias Billström
Member of the Riksdag
In office
2 October 2006 – 1 July 2019
ConstituencyVästmanland County
Personal details
Born
Zindalai Kim

(1971-05-27) 27 May 1971 (age 53)
Seoul, South Korea
Political partyModerate Party

Jessica Susanne Zindalai Polfjärd (born 27 May 1971) is a Korean-Swedish politician of the Moderate Party who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 European Parliament election in Sweden.[1] She was re-elected in the 2024 European Parliament election in Sweden.[2]

Political career

Career in national politics

Polfjärd has been a member of the Riksdag since the 2006 elections and served as chairman of the Employment Committee of the Riksdag from 2013 to 2014. She was also a member of the Committee on Industry and Trade from 2010 until 2013.[3] She eventually served as the group leader of the Moderate Party in the Riksdag from January 2015 to October 2017.[4][5]

In addition to her committee assignments, Polfjärd was a member of the Swedish delegation to the Nordic Council from 2006 until 2012 and from 2018 until 2019.[6]

Member of the European Parliament, 2019–present

Since becoming a Member of the European Parliament in 2019, Polfjärd has been serving on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. In this capacity, she has been her group's rapporteur on national climate targets for EU countries and greenhouse gas emission cuts (2022); a law to make batteries more sustainable (2022); a law for the circular economy and second-hand market (2023);[7] and a European Commission proposal to legalize new gene-editing technologies for crops (2023).[8]

Other activities

  • Nordisk Kulturfond, Substitute Member of the Board (2019)[9]

References

  1. ^ Final results from European Parliament elections in Sweden Archived 21 September 2019 at the Wayback Machine Read 31 May 2019 (in Swedish)
  2. ^ Valpresentation 2024 (Final results from European Parliament elections in Sweden 2024) Archived 14 June 2024 at the Wayback Machine Read 14 June 2024 (in Swedish)
  3. ^ Jessica Polfjärd Riksdag.
  4. ^ "Jessica Polfjärd ny gruppledare för M". SvD.se. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
  5. ^ Sveriges Radio. "Polfjärd ny gruppledare för M". Retrieved 18 January 2015.
  6. ^ Jessica Polfjärd Riksdag.
  7. ^ Clothilde Goujard (28 December 2022), Swedish presidency of the EU: The Swedes Europe needs to know Politico Europe.
  8. ^ Paula Andrés (11 December 2023), Low-speed zone: Europe's super crops revolution hits bottleneck Politico Europe.
  9. ^ Board Archived 1 November 2019 at the Wayback Machine Nordisk Kulturfond.
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