Cecilia Wikström, Sweden, is a member of the European Parliament and part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE).
She became a member of the European Parliament in 2009, and currently sits as a full member in the Committee on Legal Affairs. She is also a substitute member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. She is part of the delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia, the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and the Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly.
Cecilia Wikström got her Master of theology at the Department of Theology at Uppsala University in 1993. She has had various positions in the Church of Sweden, such as Parish Pastor, Student Pastor, Pastor for Prisoners and Cathedral Canon of the Uppsala Cathedral. Between 1999-2000 she was senior consultant at Michael Berglund Chefsrekrytering and since 2001 she is the owner and executive Director of Wikström Consulting LTD.
Between 2002 and 2009 Wikström was a Member of the Swedish Parliament for the Swedish Liberal Party. She was then Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Member of the Committee on Foreign Affaires. Cecilia has written and published several books and has held various positions in national and regional boards, such as the Swedish Unesco Board, the Police County Board and Liberal Women group in Uppsala County.
Cecilia Wikström was born in 1965, in Svanstein, Sweden.
