Rickard Persson | |
Office1: | Member of the Riksdag |
Constituency1: | Skåne County West |
Term Start1: | 29 September 2014 |
Term End1: | 24 September 2018 |
Birth Name: | Joe Rickard Persson |
Party: | Green Party |
Joe Rickard Persson (born 1959) is a Swedish politician and former member of the Riksdag, the national legislature. A member of the Green Party, he represented Skåne County West between September 2014 and September 2018.[1]
Persson is the son of editorial manager Folke Persson and shop assistant Ingegerd Persson (née Olsson).[1] He was educated in Ystad.[1] He studied personnel administration at Lund University and project management at IHM Business School.[1] He was a shipping manager (1980-1984); political ombudsman (1988-1995); business advisor (1995-2002); and an administrator at the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (2002-2014).[1] He was a member of the municipal council in Helsingborg Municipality between 1985 and 2014.[1]