Jessika Roswall
{{Short description|Swedish politician (born 1972)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Jessika Roswall
| image = Roswall EC Portrait 2024.jpg
| caption = Official portrait, 2024
| office = European Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy
| term_start = 1 December 2024
| term_end =
| president = Ursula von der Leyen
| predecessor = Virginijus Sinkevičius
| successor =
| office1 = Minister for EU Affairs and Nordic Cooperation
| constituency1 =
| primeminister1 = Ulf Kristersson
| term_start1 = 18 October 2022
| term_end1 = 10 September 2024
| predecessor1 = Hans Dahlgren (European Union Affairs)
Anna Hallberg (Nordic Cooperation)
| successor1 = Jessica Rosencrantz
| office3 = Member of the Riksdag
| term_start3 = 4 October 2010
| term_end3 = 29 August 2024
| constituency3 = Uppsala County
| party = Moderate Party
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1972|12|18|df=y}}
| birth_place = Uppsala, Sweden
| death_date =
| death_place =
| alma_mater = Uppsala University
Stockholm University
| monarch1 = Carl XVI Gustaf
| birth_name = Jessika Elisabeth Vilhelmsson
}}
Jessika Roswall (born Vilhelmsson, 18 December 1972) is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party.{{cite web |title=Protokoll 2014/15:1 Måndagen den 29 september | trans-title=Protocol 2014/15:1 Monday September 29th |url=https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/protokoll/protokoll-2014151-mandagen-den-29-september_h2091/html/ |website=Sveriges Riksdag |publisher=Swedish Parliament |access-date=6 January 2025 |language=Swedish |date=29 September 2014}} She serves as European Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy and Swedish European Commissioner since 1 December 2024.{{Cite web |title=Swedish Government EU Representation Account |url=https://x.com/swedenineu/status/1810296629884252420?s=46 |via=Twitter}}{{Cite web |date=27 November 2024 |title=Parliament approves the 'von der Leyen II' Commission |url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20241121IPR25546/parliament-approves-the-von-der-leyen-ii-commission |access-date=27 November 2024 |publisher=European Parliament |language=en}}
She served as Minister for European Union Affairs{{cite web |url=https://www.government.se/press-releases/2022/10/swedens-new-government/ |title=Sweden's New Government |date=18 October 2022 |publisher=Government of Sweden |access-date=1 November 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221018155229/https://government.se/press-releases/2022/10/swedens-new-government/ |archive-date=18 October 2022}} and Minister for Nordic Cooperation in the cabinet of Ulf Kristersson from 2022 to 2024. She was also a member of parliament from the 2010 general election to 2024, representing Uppsala County.{{Cite web|title=Jessika Roswall|url=https://moderaterna.se/uppsala/jessika-roswall|access-date=17 February 2021|website=Moderate Party|language=sv|archive-date=23 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123024922/https://moderaterna.se/uppsala/jessika-roswall|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|title=List of members elected to the Riksdag in 2014|url=https://www.altinget.se/misc/riksdag2014.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190819023350/https://www.altinget.se/misc/riksdag2014.pdf|archive-date=19 August 2019|access-date=17 February 2021|website=Altinget|language=sv}}
Early life and education
Roswall is the daughter of lawyer Anders Roswall; her mother is a teacher. She graduated from high school in 1991 and studied history at Stockholm University in 1995–1997. She moved to Uppsala to study law at Uppsala University and graduated in law (LLM) in 2002.{{Cite web |last=Riksdagsförvaltningen |title=Jessika Roswall (M) |url=http://www.riksdagen.se/sv/ledamoter-partier/ledamot/jessika-roswall_0718034011110 |access-date=6 November 2022 |website=riksdagen.se |language=sv}}
Career
After graduation, Roswall started working as a paralegal at the law firm Wigert & Placht. She then became a lawyer, specializing in criminal and family law.{{Cite web |title=Månadens advokat Jessika Vilhelmsson: "Det var medvetet att inte hamna i justitieutskottet" |url=https://www.advokaten.se/Tidningsnummer/2010/Nr-9-2010-Argang-76/Manadens-advokat-Jessika-Vilhelmsson-Det-var-medvetet-att-inte-hamna-i-justitieutskottet/ |access-date=6 November 2022 |website=advokaten.se |archive-date=1 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601081236/https://www.advokaten.se/Tidningsnummer/2010/Nr-9-2010-Argang-76/Manadens-advokat-Jessika-Vilhelmsson-Det-var-medvetet-att-inte-hamna-i-justitieutskottet/ |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |title=Ceders Advokatbyrå |url=http://ceders.nu/jurister.html |access-date=6 November 2022 |website=ceders.nu}}
At the same time, Roswall was a deputy in the municipal council of Enköping.{{Cite web |last=Riksdagsförvaltningen |title=Jessika Roswall (M) |url=http://www.riksdagen.se/sv/ledamoter-partier/ledamot/jessika-roswall_0718034011110 |access-date=6 November 2022 |website=riksdagen.se |language=sv}}
In the 2010 parliamentary election, Roswall was elected member of parliament for the Moderate Party. As a newly appointed member of parliament, she became a member of the tax committee. Since 2011, she has been a member of the Civil Affairs Committee, where she works with consumer policy issues, among other things. Since 2015, she has also been a member of the Swedish Consumer Agency's transparency council.{{Cite web |last=Riksdagsförvaltningen |title=Jessika Roswall (M)|url=http://www.riksdagen.se/sv/ledamoter-partier/ledamot/jessika-roswall_0718034011110 |access-date=6 November 2022 |website=riksdagen.se |language=sv}} She became her party's spokesperson on EU relations in 2019.{{cite web| first=Clothilde |last=Goujard |date=28 December 2022 |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-europe-lars-danielsson-jessika-roswall-christian-danielsson-ylva-johansson-gertrud-ingestadjessica-polfjard-karin-karlsbro-sara-skyttedal |title=Swedish presidency of the EU: The Swedes Europe needs to know |website=Politico Europe }}
From 18 October 2022, Roswall served as Minister for EU Affairs and for Nordic Cooperation in the Kristersson Cabinet.{{Cite news |date=11 August 2022 |title=Sverige får en ny regering |language=sv |work=SVT Nyheter |url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/senaste-nytt-om-svensk-politik-och-valet-2022 |access-date=6 November 2022}}
Following the 2024 European elections, the Swedish government nominated Roswall as the country's European Commissioner, on 8 August 2024, serving under President Ursula von der Leyen.{{cite web| first=Seb |last=Starcevic |date=8 July 2024 |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-picks-next-eu-commissioner-jessika-roswall/ |title=Sweden nominates EU minister as its next European commissioner |website=Politico Europe }}
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{{Moderate MP 2010–2014}}
{{Moderate MP 2014–2018}}
{{Members of the Riksdag, 2022–2026}}{{Von der Leyen Commission II}}{{European Commissioners from Sweden}}{{European People's Party}}
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Category:Members of the Riksdag from the Moderate Party
Category:Women members of the Riksdag
Category:Women government ministers of Sweden
Category:European commissioners (2024–2029)