Alice Bah Kuhnke

Bah grew up in Horda in Jönköping, Sweden, the daughter of a Gambian father and a Swedish mother. She attended a track-and-field-oriented high school in Växjö and was one of the country's best female sprinters in the late 1980s, with the 200-meter dash her speciality.[5][6]

Bah's television career began with SVT's "Disney Club" in 1992. Between 1998 and 1999, she had her own talk show at TV4[7] and many other television assignments, including the current-event show "Kalla fakta".[8]

On 16 January 2001, She hosted the televised music festival Artister mot nazister in Globen.[9]

Alice Bah Kuhnke was Director General for the Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society 2013–2014.[10] She also worked as General Secretary for the NGO Fairtraide Sweden (Rättvisemärkt) 2004-2007[11] In September 2009, Bah took the position of manager of environmental quality and corporate social responsibility at ÅF.[12] Alongside that job, she served on the board of a small[13] internet design firm, Doberman.[14]

In 1994, Bah campaigned actively for her country to join the EU in a referendum.[15] After leaving television to study political science, she headed a philanthropic fund at the Swedish insurance company Skandia.[1]

Bah was a member of the Swedish Church synod from 2006 until 2010,[16] a member of the board of the Royal Dramatic Theater,[17] and Vice President of YMCA-YWCA Sweden.[18]

On 3 October 2014, Bah was appointed Minister of Culture and Democracy in the Löfven Cabinet.[19] In addition to her role in government, she served as the Green Party's representative at the European Green Party from 2016.

In her late teens, Bah was engaged for two years to long jump Olympic finalist and World Silver Medalist Mattias Sunneborn.[28] In 1998, she married TV personality Henrik Johnsson, from whom she was divorced in 2002.[29] The following year, she married actor and singer Johannes Kuhnke,[29] with whom she has three daughters.[28]