Ines Junéa Uusmann (née ''Johansson''; born 30 October 1948) is a Swedish politician. Born in

Rolfstorp Rolfstorp is a locality and former parish situated in Varberg Municipality, Halland County, Sweden with 513 inhabitants in 2010. The name is formed out of Rolf (a male name) and thorpe (a new settlement). The latter part makes it likely that t ...

Halland Halland () is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden (''landskap''), on the western coast of Götaland, southern Sweden. It borders Västergötland, Småland, Scania and the sea of Kattegat. Until 1645 and the Second Treaty of Brömsebr ...

, she started her career as a

trade union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits (s ...

activist and became an MP in 1990. She became Minister of Communications (Transport) in 1994, a post she would hold until 1998, when she left parliament. From 1999 until 2008, she served as

director-general A director general or director-general (plural: ''directors general'', ''directors-general'', ''director generals'' or ''director-generals'' ) or general director is a senior executive officer, often the chief executive officer, within a governmen ...

for The ''National Board of Housing, Building and Planning'' ( Boverket). Ines Uusmann is the daughter of Thure G. Johansson, discoverer of the

Bocksten Man The Bocksten Man ( sv, Bockstensmannen) is the remains of a medieval man's body found in a bog in Varberg Municipality, Sweden. It is one of the best-preserved finds in Europe from that era and is exhibited at the Varberg County Museum. The ma ...

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Ines Uusmann
at the Riksdag website {{DEFAULTSORT:Uusmann, Ines 1948 births Living people Members of the Riksdag from the Social Democrats Women government ministers of Sweden Swedish Ministers for Communications 20th-century Swedish women politicians