Jessica Polfjärd
{{Short description|Swedish politician (born 1971)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Jessica Polfjärd
| image = 1720446600883 20240708 POLFJARD Jessica SE 011.jpg
| office = Member of the European Parliament
| term_start = 2 July 2019
| term_end =
| constituency = Sweden
| office3 = President of the Nordic Council
| term_start3 = 1 January 2019
| term_end3 = 13 June 2019
| predecessor3 = Michael Tetzschner
| successor3 = Hans Wallmark
| office4 = Group Leader of the Moderate Party
in the Swedish Riksdag
| 1blankname4 = Party chairman
| 1namedata4 = Anna Kinberg Batra
| deputy4 = Hans Wallmark
| term_start4 = 14 January 2015
| term_end4 = 3 October 2017
| predecessor4 = Anna Kinberg Batra
| successor4 = Tobias Billström
| office5 = Member of the Riksdag
| leader5 =
| term_start5 = 2 October 2006
| term_end5 = 1 July 2019
| predecessor5 =
| constituency5 = Västmanland County
| successor5 =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|5|27|df=y}}
| birth_place = Seoul, South Korea
| death_date =
| death_place =
| party = Moderate Party
| spouse =
| children =
| alma_mater =
| caption = Official portrait, 2024
| birth_name = Zindalai Kim
}}
Jessica Susanne Zindalai Polfjärd (born 27 May 1971) is a Korean-Swedish politician of the Moderate Party who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 European Parliament election in Sweden.[https://data.val.se/val/ep2019/slutresultat/E/rike/personroster.html Final results from European Parliament elections in Sweden] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190921064223/https://data.val.se/val/ep2019/slutresultat/E/rike/personroster.html |date=21 September 2019 }} Read 31 May 2019 (in Swedish) She was re-elected in the 2024 European Parliament election in Sweden.[https://resultat.val.se/euval2024/EU?r=S&t=2 Valpresentation 2024 (Final results from European Parliament elections in Sweden 2024)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240614181308/https://resultat.val.se/euval2024/EU?r=S&t=2 |date=14 June 2024 }} Read 14 June 2024 (in Swedish)
Political career
=Career in national politics=
Polfjärd has been a member of the Riksdag since the 2006 elections and served as chairman of the Employment Committee of the Riksdag from 2013 to 2014. She was also a member of the Committee on Industry and Trade from 2010 until 2013.[https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/ledamoter-partier/ledamot/jessica-polfjard_ba2d53c0-4f47-45f0-a961-ac265c2b8679 Jessica Polfjärd] Riksdag. She eventually served as the group leader of the Moderate Party in the Riksdag from January 2015 to October 2017.{{cite web|url=http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/jessica-polfjard-ny-gruppledare-for-m_4250379.svd|title=Jessica Polfjärd ny gruppledare för M|work=SvD.se|access-date=18 January 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=112&artikel=6066893|title=Polfjärd ny gruppledare för M|author=Sveriges Radio|access-date=18 January 2015}}
In addition to her committee assignments, Polfjärd was a member of the Swedish delegation to the Nordic Council from 2006 until 2012 and from 2018 until 2019.[https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/ledamoter-partier/ledamot/jessica-polfjard_ba2d53c0-4f47-45f0-a961-ac265c2b8679 Jessica Polfjärd] Riksdag.
=Member of the European Parliament, 2019–present=
Since becoming a Member of the European Parliament in 2019, Polfjärd has been serving on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. In this capacity, she has been her group's rapporteur on national climate targets for EU countries and greenhouse gas emission cuts (2022); a law to make batteries more sustainable (2022); a law for the circular economy and second-hand market (2023);Clothilde Goujard (28 December 2022), [https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-europe-lars-danielsson-jessika-roswall-christian-danielsson-ylva-johansson-gertrud-ingestadjessica-polfjard-karin-karlsbro-sara-skyttedal/ Swedish presidency of the EU: The Swedes Europe needs to know] Politico Europe. and a European Commission proposal to legalize new gene-editing technologies for crops (2023).Paula Andrés (11 December 2023), [https://www.politico.eu/article/gmo-agriculture-farming-low-speed-zone-europes-super-crops-revolution-hits-bottleneck/ Low-speed zone: Europe's super crops revolution hits bottleneck] Politico Europe.
Other activities
References
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External links
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- [http://www.riksdagen.se/webbnav/index.aspx?nid=1811&iid=0630824497414 Jessica Polfjärd] at the Riksdag website
{{Moderate MP 2006–2010}}
{{Moderate MP 2010–2014}}
{{Current EP Sweden}}
{{EP Political Group EPP}}
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Category:Members of the Riksdag from the Moderate Party
Category:Women members of the Riksdag
Category:21st-century Swedish women politicians
Category:Politicians from Seoul
Category:MEPs for Sweden 2019–2024
Category:21st-century women MEPs for Sweden
Category:South Korean emigrants to Sweden
Category:Swedish people of South Korean descent
Category:MEPs for Sweden 2024–2029
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