Johan Forssell (politician, born 1979)

Johan Forssell
Johan Forssell
	Johan Forssell (2018)
Member of the Swedish Parliament; for Stockholm Municipality
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 4 October 2010
	In office; 2 October 2006 – 15 November 2006
Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister
	In office; 15 November 2006 – 6 September 2007
Prime Minister	Fredrik Reinfeldt
Preceded by	Jan Larsson
Succeeded by	Kristoffer Tamsons
Chairman of the Moderate Youth League
	In office; November 2004 – November 2006
Preceded by	Christofer Fjellner
Succeeded by	Niklas Wykman
Personal details
Born	December 8, 1979; Stockholm, Sweden
Political party	Moderate Party
Spouse(s)	Kristine Forssell
Children	2
Alma mater	Stockholm School of Economics; London School of Economics; Otago School of Business
Website	http://johanforssell.se

Carl Johan Henrik Forssell (born 8 December 1979) is a Swedish Moderate Party politician who is a Member of the Swedish Parliament for Stockholm Municipality since 2010. He previously served as Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt from 2006 to 2007, and who prior to that served as chairman of the Moderate Youth League from 2004 to 2006.

Personal life and education

Johan Forssell was born in Stockholm but he grew up in Örebro. He has a Master of Business and Economics degree from the Stockholm School of Economics. He did his military service with the Arctic Rangers at K4 in Arvidsjaur.

Political career

Forssell joined the Moderate Youth League (Swedish: Moderata ungdomsförbundet) in 1992. He served as chairman of the Moderate School Youth from 1998 to 1999 and was elected as member of the board of the Moderate Youth League in 2000. He was elected as new chairman of the Moderate Youth League on November 20, 2004, following the resignation of Christofer Fjellner. He served on this post until November 25, 2006, when he was succeeded by Niklas Wykman.

In the general election held on September 17, 2006, Forssell was elected a member of the Riksdag. As the new cabinet was announced on October 6, Forssell was appointed as Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. He left his place in the Riksdag following his new appointment.

In September 2007, he resigned from the position of Chief of Staff and become the Moderate Partys planning manager for the 2010 general election. Following the 2010 election, he returned to the Swedish Parliament where he serves as member of the Defence Committee.

Trivia

Forssell was voted the "sexiest man in Sweden" in 2005, by the LGBT-magazine QX.

gollark: I'll delete them.

gollark: You can't make your own SPUDNET keys, roughly. I just sent you one.

gollark: Ah, the joys of porting internal-use systems for public stuff.

gollark: You can't do that. I'm working on it.

gollark: It can't transfer items between worlds, if that's what you mean.

External links

Preceded by Christofer Fjellner	Chairman of the Moderate Youth League 2004–2006	Succeeded by Niklas Wykman

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