Kristina Axén Olin

Infobox Prime Minister


name =Kristina Axén Olin
order =17th Mayor of Stockholm
term_start =2006
term_end =incumbent
predecessor =Annika Billström
successor =incumbent
birth_date =Birth date and age|1962|10|21|mf=y
death_date =
death_place =
party =Moderata samlingspartiet
spouse =Mats Olin
languagesspoken =


occupation = Music teacher, Principal

Anna Kristina Axén Olin (born October 21 1962) is a Swedish Moderate Party politician and since 2006 the current Mayor of Stockholm. She also serves as deputy chairman of the party since 2003 and as chairman of the Stockholm County Police Authority. She is Stockholm's second female mayor.

Career

Axén Olin was elected to the Council in 1991. She has mainly been active in social issues and was Commissioner of Social Service under the Moderate Party administration of Carl Cederschiöld 1998-2002. She is known for her liberalism and was one of the most senior Moderates to advocate adoption rights for homosexuals. She has also, however, become famous for her hardline stand on reducing welfare payments; she is credited by some as having reduced welfare dependency considerably during her time as Commissioner. She is also an advocate of chemical castration for rapists [http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=1900&date=20050816] .

Private

Axén Olin is a music teacher by profession and served until her appointment as Social Service Commissioner as the assistant principal of Maria Elementar, a private school in the Stockholm district of Södermalm. She currently lives with her husband and three children in the suburban borough of Enskede.

External links

* [http://www.moderaterna.net/axenolin/ Personal Website]