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Alice Bah Kuhnke
MEP
File:Alice Bah Kuhnke MEP (2024).jpg
Official portrait, 2024
Vice-Chair of the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Incumbent
Assumed office
2 July 2019
Co-chairsSka Keller
Philippe Lamberts
Serving alongsideGwendoline Delbos-Corfield
Bas Eickhout
Terry Reintke
Molly Scott Cato
Alyn Smith
Ernest Urtasun
Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office
2 July 2019
ConstituencySweden
Minister for Culture and Democracy
In office
3 October 2014 – 21 January 2019
Prime MinisterStefan Löfven
Preceded byLena Adelsohn Liljeroth (Culture)
Birgitta Ohlsson (Democracy)
Succeeded byAmanda Lind
Personal details
BornAlice Bah
(1971-12-21) 21 December 1971 (age 54)
Malmö, Sweden[1]
PartyGreen
Spouses
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(m. 1998; div. 2002)​
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(m. 2003; div. 2023)​
Children3
WebsiteAlice Bah Kuhnke (mp)

Alice Bah Kuhnke (née Bah; 21 December 1971) is a politician for the Green Party who is currently a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. Previously she served as the Minister of Culture and Democracy from October 2014 to January 2019. Before going into politics, she was a television presenter. She also helped found the think tank Sektor3.[2][3]

She was elected Member of the European Parliament in the 2019 European Parliament election in Sweden.[4]

Early life and education

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Bah was born on 21 December 1971 in Malmö.[5] She grew up in Horda in Jönköping, Sweden, the daughter of a Gambian father and a Swedish mother.[6][7] She attended a track-and-field-oriented high school in Växjö and was one of the country's best female sprinters in the late 1980s, with the 200-meter dash her speciality.[8][9]

Career

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Television

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Bah's television career began with SVT's "Disney Club" in 1992. Between 1998 and 1999, she had her own talk show at TV4[10] and many other television assignments, including the current-event show "Kalla fakta".[11]

On 16 January 2001, She hosted the televised music festival Artister mot nazister in Globen.[12]

Private and public sector

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Alice Bah Kuhnke was Director General for the Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society 2013–2014.[13] She also worked as General Secretary for the NGO Fairtraide Sweden (Rättvisemärkt) 2004-2007[14] In September 2009, Bah took the position of manager of environmental quality and corporate social responsibility at ÅF.[15] Alongside that job, she served on the board of a small[16] internet design firm, Doberman.[17]

Political career

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In 1994, Bah campaigned actively for her country to join the EU in a referendum.[18] After leaving television to study political science, she headed a philanthropic fund at the Swedish insurance company Skandia.[1]

Bah was a member of the Swedish Church synod from 2006 until 2010,[19] a member of the board of the Royal Dramatic Theatre,[20] and Vice President of YMCA-YWCA Sweden.[21]

On 3 October 2014, Bah was appointed Minister of Culture and Democracy in the Löfven Cabinet.[22] In addition to her role in government, she served as the Green Party's representative at the European Green Party from 2016.

Member of the European Parliament, (2019–present)

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Alice Bah Kuhnke presenting herself in a video produced by Heinrich Böll Foundation/Green European Foundation.

In 2019, Bah stood down as minister to lead her party's list for the European elections.[18] In parliament, she has since been serving as deputy chairwoman of the Greens–European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) group, under the leadership of co-chairs Ska Keller (2019–2022), Philippe Lamberts (2019–2024), Terry Reintke (since 2022) and Bas Eickhout (since 2024).[23][24] She also joined the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.

In addition to her committee assignments, Bah is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Corruption,[25] the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity,[26] the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights[27] and the European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals.[28]

In January 2022, she was the Greens/EFA candidate as a new President of the European Parliament.[29] She was not elected, having garnered only 101 votes in the first round.[30]

In September 2022, Bah was the recipient of the Environment and Climate Action Award at The Parliament Magazine's annual MEP Awards.[31] At the 2024 MEP Awards ceremony, Bah was one of twenty MEPs to be given a "Rising Star" award.[32]

Personal life

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In her late teens, Bah was engaged for two years to long jump Olympic finalist and World Silver Medalist Mattias Sunneborn.[33] In 1998, she married TV personality Henrik Johnsson, from whom she was divorced in 2002.[34] The following year, she married actor and singer Johannes Kuhnke,[34] with whom she has three daughters.[33]

References

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  25. ^ Intergroup on Anti-Corruption Archived 15 December 2022 at the Wayback Machine European Parliament.
  26. ^ Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity Archived 5 November 2022 at the Wayback Machine European Parliament.
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  28. ^ Members Archived 31 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals.
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