Anne Wibble Explained

Office:Minister for Finance
Term Start:4 October 1991
Term End:7 October 1994
Primeminister:Carl Bildt
Predecessor:Allan Larsson
Successor:Göran Persson
Birth Name:Anne Ohlin
Birth Date:13 October 1943
Birth Place:Stockholm, Sweden
Death Place:Stockholm, Sweden
Party:Liberal People's
Spouse:Jan Wibble
Children:2

Anne Marie Wibble (née Ohlin; 13 October 1943 – 14 March 2000) was a Swedish politician who served as Minister for Finance from 1991 to 1994, the first woman to hold the post.[1] She was a member of the Liberal People's Party. She was the daughter of Bertil Ohlin, a 1977 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate.[2]

Education

Wibble graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics in 1966, then studied at Stanford University where she took an M.A. degree in 1967. In 1973 she took a licentiate degree in economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, where she also was a teacher from 1967 to 1977.[1]

Political career

Wibble worked for the Liberal People's Party in the Swedish government offices and the Swedish parliament from 1980 to 1986. She was a member of parliament from the 1985 election. In the 1991 election, a centre-right coalition won and Wibble was appointed Minister of Finance in the Bildt Cabinet.[1] She stayed in office to the 1994 election, which the government lost. Wibble returned to parliament, and ran for party leader in 1995, but lost to Maria Leissner. She remained a member of parliament until the end of 1997, after which she became the chief economist of the Federation of Swedish Industry.

She died from cancer in 2000.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Vem är det: Svensk biografisk handbok 1997 . . 1194 . 2022-07-15 . runeberg.org . sv.
  2. Web site: Holmqvist. Anette. Anne Wibble är död. wwwc.aftonbladet.se. Aftonbladet. 15 March 2000. Swedish. 8 February 2015.