Maria Sigrid Astrid Borelius (born 6 July 1960) is a Swedish journalist, entrepreneur and former politician. Following the 2006 Swedish general election she was elected a Member of Parliament for the Moderate Party, and on 6 October 2006 she was presented as Minister for Foreign Trade in Fredrik Reinfeldt's new centre-right cabinet. However, on 14 October 2006, after just eight days in office, she resigned from her post and politics following a n...
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Maria Sigrid Astrid Borelius (born 6 July 1960) is a Swedish journalist, entrepreneur and former politician. Following the 2006 Swedish general election she was elected a Member of Parliament for the Moderate Party, and on 6 October 2006 she was presented as Minister for Foreign Trade in Fredrik Reinfeldt's new centre-right cabinet. However, on 14 October 2006, after just eight days in office, she resigned from her post and politics following a number of allegations of tax avoidance and tax evasion in the media, the so called "Nannygate".
Maria Borelius was born in Täby in Stockholm County. She is a trained biologist, earning a Bachelor of Science degree from Lund University in 1984 and a Master of Science degree in journalism from New York University in 1986. Borelius started a career as a television journalist as one of four presenters on the television program Trekvart in 1989. She has worked as a science reporter at Rapport in Sveriges Television and as a presenter of Nova and...
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