Eva Zetterberg | |
Birth Name: | Ingrid Eva Margareta Zetterberg |
Birth Date: | 11 September 1947 |
Birth Place: | Stockholm, Sweden |
Occupation: | Politician, diplomat |
Years Active: | 1972–2014 |
Party: | Left Party |
Relatives: | Hanna Zetterberg (niece) |
Alma Mater: | University of Wisconsin |
Ingrid Eva Margareta Zetterberg (born 11 September 1947) is a Swedish Left Party politician and diplomat. She served as a member of parliament from 1991 to 2002.[1] She has later been Swedish ambassador in Nicaragua, Chile, and Peru.[2] [3]
Zetterberg was born on 11 September 1947 in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of pastor and Ann Louise (née Holmgren).[4] She has four siblings, including the jurist .
Zetterberg earned a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Wisconsin in the United States in 1969, a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970, and a social work degree in 1976.[4]
Zetterberg worked as a social assistant in Stockholm from 1972 to 1980, as a refugee consultant with the National Board of Health and Welfare from 1973 to 1974, a social inspector from 1980 to 1982, and a planning secretary starting in 1982. He became a member of parliament in 1991 and served as the Second Deputy Speaker of the Riksdag from 1998. He was a member of the Stockholm County Council from 1979 to 1982 and again from 1985 to 1991. He also served on the board of the Samhall Foundation from 1990 to 1991, was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 1998, and joined the SIDA board from 1998.[4]
In 1978, Zetterberg married Arne Gustafsson (born 1932).[4]