Political Career:
1958-60 Special Assistant in the Cabinet Office to the Prime Minister, Tage
Erlander.
1961-67 Chairman of the Swedish Social Democratic Party Youth League.
1964-96 Member of Parliament.
1967-69 Under-Secretary of State at the Cabinet Office.
1969-73 Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs.
1971-74 Chairman of the County of Stockholm, Branch of the Social Democratic
Party.
1972-96 Member of the National Board of the Social Democratic Party.
1973-76 Minister for Housing and Physical Planning.
1975-96 Member of the Executive Committee of the Social Democratic National
Board.
1982-86 Deputy Prime Minister with special responsibility
for political planning and co-ordination of research policy.
1985-86 Also Minister of the Environment.
1986-91 Prime Minister of Sweden.
1986-90 Member of the Six Nations initiative (India,
Mexico, Tanzania, Canada, Greece, Argentina and Sweden) to support nuclear
disarmament.
1986-96 Chairman of the Social Democratic Party.
1992- Co-chairman of the Commission on Global Governance.
1993-96 Prime Minister of Sweden.
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