Ibrahim Baylan

Ibrahim Baylan
Minister for Policy Coordination
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 May 2016
Monarch	Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime Minister	Stefan Löfven
Preceded by	Office created
Minister for Energy
Incumbent
Assumed office 3 October 2014
Monarch	Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime Minister	Stefan Löfven
Preceded by	Anna-Karin Hatt
Minister for Schools
In office 1 November 2004 – 6 October 2006
Monarch	Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime Minister	Göran Persson
Preceded by	Thomas Östros
Succeeded by	Jan Björklund
Member of the Swedish Riksdag for Västerbotten County
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 October 2006
Personal details
Born	(1972-03-15) March 15, 1972 Mardin (Tur Abdin), Turkey
Political party	Social Democrats
Religion	Syriac Orthodox Church

Ibrahim Baylan (born 15 March 1972) is a Turkish-born Swedish politician who has been Minister for Energy in the Swedish Government since 2014 and Minister for Policy Coordination since 2016.

He has been a member of the Swedish Riksdag since 2006, and was deputy chairman in the education committée and spokesperson of educational issues for the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 2012 to 2014. From 2004-2006 he served as Minister for Schools.

Early life and career

Ibrahim Baylan is an ethnic Assyrian, born in the village Salah in Tur Abdin, Turkey, belonging to the Syriac Orthodox Church. His parents left the country with him in the early 1980s. They settled in Botkyrka, a suburb of Stockholm. He studied economics at Umeå University and was engaged in student politics. In 1997 he became the chair of the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League in Umeå. The same year, he was elected chair of the Umeå Union of Students and also became a member of the municipal school board.

From 2000 Baylan worked as an ombudsman for the Swedish Union of Commercial Salaried Employees. He ran unsuccessfully on the Social Democratic ballot for the 2004 European Parliament election. Later in the same year, he was appointed to be Minister for School by Prime Minister Göran Persson, becoming the first non-European immigrant to become a member of a Swedish government cabinet. 2007 he was elected chairman of the Swedish parliamentary committee of transportation and communication. 2009 he became secretary general of the Swedish Social Democratic party. He resigned in March 2011.

As school minister he was involved in a controversy about a report from the Swedish National Agency for Education that was withdrawn after criticism from minister Baylan. He was reported to the Swedish Committee on the Constitution and called to a hearing on 12 April 2005.

External links

• Riksdagen: Ibrahim Baylan (s)
• Ibrahim Baylan – www.socialdemokraterna.se