Alice Teodorescu

Alice Teodorescu

Alice Teodorescu in March 2014
Born Alexandra Teodorescu
(1984-05-02) 2 May 1984
Bucharest, Romania
Nationality Swedish
Occupation Jurist, commentator

Alexandra "Alice" Teodorescu (born 2 May 1984) is a Swedish jurist with the Företagarna organisation of Swedish entrepreneurs and a commentator on social and political issues.

Career

Teodorescu was born in Bucharest, Romania, but came to Sweden as a child in 1989 and was raised in Lund.[1] After completing her legal training, she worked as an intern in the Brussels office of Svenskt Näringsliv and then became a communication strategist for the newspaper.[1] She has also been an editorial writer for newspapers including Barometern in Oskarshamn and Gotlands Allehanda.[2][3]

She attended the Sture Academy, a training programme for young people run by Timbro and named after Sture Eskilsson.[1][4] In 2009 she founded a women's network called En plats i himlen för kvinnor som hjälper varandra (a place in heaven for women who help each other).[5]

Teodorescu "has made herself known as a provocative and fearless liberal debater".[4] She has criticised gender quotas on corporate boards and advocated a policy of equality based on individualism rather than collectivism. She has also written on integration and education. In February 2014 she attracted much attention by calling in a debate on the Sveriges Radio channel 1 programme P1 Debatt for a clear definition of the term "racism" and questioning whether racism in Sweden was structural.[4][6][7][8] She also argued that it was time for a more nuanced, less dogmatic and polarising debate on the issue.[9] During the Almedalen week in June and July 2014 Ali Esbati refused to shake hands with Teodorescu after a live broadcast debate between the two, this after a discussion about racism in Sweden.[10] After the debate both Teodorescu and Esbati received criticism for not considering each other's opinions.[11] In a subsequent opinion piece in Svenska Dagbladet, Teodorescu complained about what she saw as the lenient treatment of the Green Party by the press.[12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Hagenblad, Åsa (2009-05-02). "Drömde om en karriär som diplomat". Sydsvenskan (in Swedish). Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  2. ↑ "Alice Teodorescu". Helsingborgs Dagblad (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 20 May 2014. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  3. ↑ "Ny på ledarsidan: Alice Teodorescu" (in Swedish). Helagotland.se. 2010-07-06. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  4. 1 2 3 "De obekväma: Alice Teodorescu" (in Swedish). Sveriges Utbildningsradio. 2014-04-18. Archived from the original on 4 July 2014. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  5. ↑ Teodorescu, Alice. "Nätverkets Historia" (in Swedish). Enplatsihimlen.se. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  6. ↑ Teodorescu, Alice (2014-02-03). "Antirasister och rasister gör gemensam sak" (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. Retrieved 2014-07-18.
  7. ↑ Pascalidou, Alexandra; Welander, Louise; Löfgren, Marie-Jeanette (2014-02-04). "Vi ber om ursäkt, Alice Teodorescu" (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. Retrieved 2014-07-18.
  8. ↑ "P1 ber om ursäkt efter rasismdebatt". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 2014-02-04. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  9. ↑ "P1 Debatt: Hur mycket rasism tål Sverige?" (in Swedish). Sveriges radio. 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
  10. ↑ Britts, Malvina (2014-07-04). "Vägrade skaka hand efter storbråk i sändning". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 2014-07-23.
  11. ↑ Andersson, Robert (2014-07-12). "Inte ens när värden som mångfald," (in Swedish). Nyheter24. Retrieved 2014-07-23.
  12. ↑ Teodorescu, Alice (2014-07-18). "Varför tar inte journalisterna MP på allvar?". Svenska Dagbladet. Retrieved 2014-07-24.
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