Pär Holmgren

Pär Holmgren MEP
Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 July 2019
Constituency	Sweden
Personal details
Born	Pär Anders Holmgren (1964-10-24) 24 October 1964 (age 59) Gävle, Sweden
Political party	Sweden Green Party European Union Greens-European Free Alliance

Pär Anders Holmgren (born 24 October 1964) is a Swedish meteorologist and politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019.^[1] He is a member of the Green Party, part of Greens-European Free Alliance.

Career as meteorologist

Holmgren was a meteorologist by profession, and between 1988 and 2008 presented the weather report for the Swedish public service company SVT^[2] He holds an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University, where he is a frequent lecturer, and has published several books on the subjects of meteorology and climate policy.

During his career he has also worked for the Swedish Air Force and the insurance company Länsförsäkringar.

Political career

Holmgren took the step from academia to politics in the 2018, when he joined the Swedish Green party. In the 2019 European Parliament elections, he won one of two seats allocated to the Swedish Greens, together with Alice Bah Kuhnke.^[3] In parliament, he has since been serving on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. In addition to his committee assignments, he is a member of the parliament's delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.

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