Jörgen Warborn

Jörgen Warborn
Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 July 2019
Constituency	Sweden
Member of the Riksdag
In office 29 September 2014 – 1 July 2019
Constituency	Halland County
Mayor of Varberg Municipality
In office 1 January 2011 – 31 December 2014
Preceded by	Gösta Bergenheim
Succeeded by	Ann-Charlotte Stenkil
Personal details
Born	(1969-01-23) 23 January 1969 Varberg, Halland County, Sweden
Political party	Moderate Party
Spouse	Titti Warborn
Children	3
Occupation	Entrepreneur, politician

Jörgen Warborn, (born 23 January 1969) is a Swedish entrepreneur and politician of the Moderate Party. He was elected Member of the European Parliament in the 2019 European Parliament election in Sweden. He serves as vice coordinator for the European People's Party in the EU Parliament's Committee on International Trade.

Warborn was Mayor of Varberg Municipality from the 2010 general election until his election to the Riksdag in 2014. He was reelected to the Riksdag in 2018.

In addition to his role in parliament, Warborn briefly served as member of the Swedish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 2019.

Since 2016, Warborn has been national chairman of the Moderate Party's business council.

Biography

Jörgen Warborn studied economy and leadership at the International University of Monaco, international relations at the London School of Economics, and entrepreneurship at Babson College in Boston. Warborn started his first business at the age of 17 and has since then started and managed several small business, primarily in the IT and marketing sector. Warborn lives in Varberg on the Swedish west coast. He is since 2008 married to Titti Warborn, and the couple have three children. His wife is also a small business entrepreneur, managing a furniture store.

Political career

Warborn's political commitment grew in the early 1990s, when he wanted Sweden to become part of the European Union. In the Swedish 1994 referendum on EU membership, Warborn was the county campaign leader for the "Yes"-campaign, that organized 14 political parties and NGOs in Halland County. After studying abroad, Warborn moved back to Varberg in 2005 and became active in the Moderate Party. He became mayor of Varberg in 2010, member of parliament in 2014 and member of the European Parliament in 2019.