26 Facts About Anders Borg

Anders Erik Borg was born on 11 January 1968 and is a Swedish politician who served as Minister for Finance in the Swedish government from 2006 to 2014.

Anders Borg is a member of the Swedish Moderate Party.

Anders Borg became a member of the Moderate Youth League in the upper secondary school in Norrkoping.

Anders Borg attended Stockholm University from 1995 to 1997, where his studies in economics included participation in graduate level courses despite the fact that he had not completed a bachelor's degree.

Also as a teenager, Anders Borg was a libertarian and advocate of drug legalization, on one occasion writing a newspaper article calling for drug decriminalization in Sweden.

Anders Borg has admitted to smoking cannabis in his youth.

From 1990 to 1991, Anders Borg was an editorial writer for the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

Anders Borg was like a volcano, always erupting with new ideas.

Anders Borg was recruited as chief economist of the Moderate Party in 2003 by Bo Lundgren and stayed in the team of the newly elected party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt.

Anders Borg served as a member of the board of the Swedish Labour Market Administration from 2005 to 2006.

Anders Borg has been recognised as the mastermind behind the new Swedish government's economic doctrine, focusing on proactive measures against unemployment: an incremental dismantling of the social democratic welfare state, with larger self-financing of welfare systems, lower taxes and fewer benefits as the way to create new motivation to work and more business opportunities and creation of jobs.

Anders Borg developed these New Classical Economics policies in his role as chief economist in the Moderate Party.

On 5 September 2007, Minister for Defence Mikael Odenberg resigned from the cabinet due to disagreement with Anders Borg regarding funds for the Swedish Armed Forces.

Anders Borg was advisor to the Finnish government from 2014 to 2015.

Anders Borg was called for this work by the Moderate Party's Finnish sister party the National Coalition Party and its companion the Centre Party of Finland.

In 2015, Anders Borg is deputy chairman of Investment AB Kinnevik and Millicom.

Anders Borg resigned as deputy chairman of technology investment group Kinnevik and as adviser to Citigroup 2017 amid a scandal over his allegedly drunken behavior at a party.

In 2018 Anders Borg joined IPsoft as Senior Advisor, with main role to promote the company's AI platform Amelia.

Anders Borg was previously married to Susanna "Sanna" Anders Borg, with whom he has three children.

Anders Borg used to live with his family in Bie, Katrineholm Municipality, Sodermanland County.

Anders Borg has said that he will serve only two terms as Finance Minister, ultimately to spend more time with his family.

Anders Borg was in a relationship with Dominika Peczynski, a PR professional and 1990s pop music star with her former band Army of Lovers.

On 22 June 2022, Peczynski announced that she and Anders Borg had filed for divorce without "time for reflection", meaning immediately.

Unlike most of the Moderate Party members of the cabinet, Anders Borg describes himself as a feminist.

In July 2017, Anders Borg was involved in a scandal due to his behaviour at a party in Stockholm, where he, heavily intoxicated, was alleged to have acted in an extremely vulgar, invasive and obscene manner, showing off his private parts among other things.

Anders Borg later apologised for this incident, claiming he had had a "blackout", "was under large pressure", and did not recall the events in question.