Carl Schlyter

Carl Schlyter
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Member of the Swedish Riksdag for Stockholm County
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 October 2014
Member of the European Parliament for the Kingdom of Sweden
In office July 2004 – July 2014
Personal details
Born	(1968-01-07) January 7, 1968 Danderyd, Sweden
Political party	Green Party
Alma mater	Royal Institute of Technology

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Video Introduction (English) / (Swedish) / (French)

Carl Schlyter (born 7 January 1968 in Danderyd, Stockholm County) is a Swedish politician who has been a member of the Swedish Riksdag for Stockholm County since 2014. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2014. He is a member of the Green Party, which is part of the European Greens, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He is a member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

He was also a substitute for the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Fisheries, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Career

• Chemical engineering specialising in biotechnology and the environment (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 1987–1994)
• Research study Impurities in coal (Miami University, Ohio, 1989)
• Museum guide (1994)
• Political secretary of the Green Party in Stockholm City Hall (1994–1995)
• Assistant, European Parliament (1996)
• Responsible for Agenda 21 and the environment, culture and sports administration Stockholm (1997)
• Adviser to the Green Group in the Committee on Budgetary Control (1997–2004)
• Member of the party's Executive (2000–2008)
• Sweden's representative in the European Green Federation (since 2001)
• Sweden's representative in the Global Greens (since 2002)

External links

• Official website
• European Parliament biography
• Declaration (PDF) of financial interests (Swedish)