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Alice Bah Kuhnke
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Official portrait, 2024
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| Vice-Chair of the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance | |
| Assumed office 2 July 2019 |
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| Co-chairs | Ska Keller Philippe Lamberts |
| Serving alongside | Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield Bas Eickhout Terry Reintke Molly Scott Cato Alyn Smith Ernest Urtasun |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| Assumed office 2 July 2019 |
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| Constituency | Sweden |
| Minister for Culture and Democracy | |
| In office 3 October 2014 – 21 January 2019 |
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| Prime Minister | Stefan Löfven |
| Preceded by | Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth (Culture) Birgitta Ohlsson (Democracy) |
| Succeeded by | Amanda Lind |
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Alice Bah
21 December 1971 Malmö, Sweden |
| Political party | Green |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | Alice Bah Kuhnke (mp) |
Alice Bah Kuhnke (born Alice Bah on 21 December 1971) is a Swedish politician. She is a member of the Green Party. Currently, she is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), a role she has held since 2019.
Before becoming an MEP, she was the Minister of Culture and Democracy in Sweden from October 2014 to January 2019. Alice Bah Kuhnke also worked as a television presenter before she entered politics. She also helped start a group called Sektor3, which is a "think tank" that develops new ideas.
She was chosen to be a Member of the European Parliament in the 2019 European Parliament election in Sweden.
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Early Life and Education
Alice Bah Kuhnke was born on 21 December 1971. She grew up in a place called Horda in Jönköping, Sweden. Her father was from Gambia, and her mother was Swedish.
When she was in high school in Växjö, she focused on track and field athletics. She was one of the best female sprinters in Sweden in the late 1980s. Her best event was the 200-meter dash.
Career Highlights
Television Work
Alice Bah Kuhnke started her television career in 1992. She worked for SVT on a show called "Disney Club". Later, from 1998 to 1999, she had her own talk show on TV4. She also worked on many other TV programs, including a news show called "Kalla fakta".
On 16 January 2001, she hosted a music festival called Artister mot nazister (Artists Against Nazis) in Globen. This event was shown on television.
Work in Organizations
From 2013 to 2014, Alice Bah Kuhnke was the Director General for the Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society. Before that, from 2004 to 2007, she was the General Secretary for Fairtrade Sweden (Rättvisemärkt), which is an organization that promotes fair trade.
In September 2009, she started working at ÅF. There, she managed projects related to environmental quality and corporate social responsibility. This means she helped the company be more responsible towards the environment and society. She also served on the board of a company called Doberman, which designs things for the internet.
Political Journey
In 1994, Alice Bah Kuhnke actively campaigned for Sweden to join the EU. After leaving television, she studied political science. She then managed a fund at a Swedish insurance company called Skandia that gave money to good causes.
She was also a member of the Swedish Church synod from 2006 to 2010. She was on the board of the Royal Dramatic Theatre and was the Vice President of YMCA-YWCA Sweden.
On 3 October 2014, Alice Bah Kuhnke became the Minister of Culture and Democracy in the Swedish government, known as the Löfven Cabinet. From 2016, she also represented the Green Party at the European Green Party.
Member of the European Parliament (2019–Present)
In 2019, Alice Bah Kuhnke stepped down as minister to lead her party's list for the European elections. She was elected and has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since then.
In the European Parliament, she is the deputy chairwoman of the Greens–European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) group. She works with other leaders like Ska Keller, Philippe Lamberts, Terry Reintke, and Bas Eickhout. She is also part of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
Alice Bah Kuhnke is also a member of several special groups in the European Parliament. These include groups focused on fighting corruption, promoting anti-racism and diversity, supporting LGBTQ+ rights, and working for animal welfare and conservation.
In January 2022, she was a candidate to become the new President of the European Parliament. She received 101 votes in the first round but was not elected.
In September 2022, she received the Environment and Climate Action Award from The Parliament Magazine at their annual MEP Awards. In 2024, she was also given a "Rising Star" award at the MEP Awards ceremony.
Personal Life
When she was a teenager, Alice Bah Kuhnke was engaged for two years to Mattias Sunneborn, a famous long jump athlete. In 1998, she married TV personality Henrik Johnsson, but they divorced in 2002. The next year, in 2003, she married actor and singer Johannes Kuhnke. They have three daughters together.
See also
In Spanish: Alice Bah Kuhnke para niños
