Karin Kock-Lindberg | |
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Minister of Supply | |
In office 1948–1949 | |
Preceded by | Gunnar Sträng |
Succeeded by | John Ericsson |
Personal details | |
Born | Stockholm, Sweden | 2 July 1891
Died | 28 July 1976 Stockholm, Sweden | (aged 85)
Political party | Social Democrats |
Karin Kock-Lindberg ( née Kock; 2 July 1891 – 28 July 1976) was a Swedish politician ( Social Democrats) and professor of economics. In 1947 she became the first woman to hold a ministerial position in Sweden. [1] [2] She was also the first female professor of economics in Sweden. [1] Karin Kock was known as Karin Kock-Lindberg after her marriage to lawyer Hugo Lindberg in 1936.
Karin Kock was born in Stockholm, and studied at the London School of Economics and Stockholm University. [1] She was a lecturer at Stockholm University in 1933–1938, and was appointed professor of economics in 1945, after already having functioned as such for several years. [1]
She published several works in economics, her speciality being credit and trade cycle problems. [3] Her English language works include her doctoral thesis A Study of Interest Rates (1929) and International Trade and the GATT (1969), as well as The National Income of Sweden 1861-1930 (1937) written in collaboration with two other economists. [3]
Karin Kock was given several official assignments, such as economic adviser at the Women's Workers Association in 1936 and government delegate at the International Workers' Conference in Paris in 1945. [1] She was a member of The Committee for Increased Women's Representation, founded in 1937 to increase women's political representation. [4] She served as minister without portfolio of questions regarding the economy in 1947–1948 and as minister of supply in 1948–1949. [1]
Following the dissolving of the Ministry of Supply in 1950, Karin Kock became director of Statistics Sweden. [1] She was head of the agency from 1950 to 1957. [3] During 1953 and 1954 she was chairman of the Swedish Statistical Society. [3] She became a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1956 [5] and a member of the International Statistical Institute in 1958. [3]
As head of Sweden's delegation to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, she acted for some years as chairman of its plenary session in Geneva. [3]
Karin Kock was also chairperson of Akademiskt bildade kvinnors förening (The Association of Female Academicians) from 1926 to 1933 and vice president of International Federation of University Women. [1]