Beatrice Ask

Eva Carin Beatrice Ask is a Swedish politician and a member of the Moderate Party. She has been a member of the Swedish Riksdag for Stockholm Municipality since 1988. She served as Minister for Schools from 1991 to 1994 and as Minister for Justice from 2006 to 2014.

Ask was born in Sveg, Jmtland County. She earned a high school diploma in Akron, Ohio, United States, in 1974, and finished her upper secondary school in Sweden in 1976. From 1978 to 1979 she studied international economics at Uppsala University but never graduated. Instead she began working for the Moderate Party and the Moderate Youth League, before being elected the first female chairman of the youth league in 1984. She was reelected in 1986 and served a second term until 1988, when she was elected city commissioner with responsibility for schools in the city council of Stockholm.

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