Mats_Persson_(politician)
Mats Persson (politician)
Swedish politician (born 1980)
Mats Persson (born 27 November 1980) is a Swedish politician for the Liberal party. Since 18 October 2022, he is the Minister for Education in the Ulf Kristersson Cabinet.[2][3]
He has been a Member of the Riksdag since 2014, elected for the southern constituency of Skåne County.[4][5] He was formerly vice-president of the Liberal Youth of Sweden.
Between 2009 and 2014, he was a regional councillor for the Liberals in Region Scania. Persson was elected to the Liberal Party Board in 2011 and was the party's economic policy spokesman from May 2016 to February 2019.[6][7] He returned to this role in August 2019.[8]