Jessica Susanne Zindalai Polfjärd (born 27 May 1971) is a Korean-Swedish

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of the

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who has been serving as a

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since the 2019 European Parliament election in Sweden. She was re-elected in the 2024 European Parliament election in Sweden.

Political career

Career in national politics

Polfjärd has been a

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of the

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since the 2006 elections and served as chairman of the

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of the Riksdag from 2013 to 2014. She was also a member of the Committee on Industry and Trade from 2010 until 2013. She eventually served as the group leader of the

in the

from January 2015 to October 2017. In addition to her committee assignments, Polfjärd was a member of the Swedish delegation to the

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from 2006 until 2012 and from 2018 until 2019.

Member of the European Parliament, 2019–present

Since becoming a

in 2019, Polfjärd has been serving on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. In this capacity, she has been her group's

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on national climate targets for EU countries and greenhouse gas emission cuts (2022); a law to make batteries more sustainable (2022); a law for the circular economy and second-hand market (2023); and a European Commission proposal to legalize new gene-editing technologies for crops (2023).

Other activities

* Nordisk Kulturfond, Substitute Member of the Board (2019)Board
Nordisk Kulturfond.

References

External links

Jessica Polfjärd
at the

website 1971 births Living people Members of the Riksdag from the Moderate Party Women members of the Riksdag 21st-century Swedish women politicians Swedish adoptees Politicians from Seoul Moderate Party MEPs MEPs for Sweden 2019–2024 21st-century women MEPs for Sweden South Korean emigrants to Sweden Swedish people of South Korean descent MEPs for Sweden 2024–2029 {{Sweden-Moderate-politician-stub