Lars Engqvist is a Swedish politician. He served as chairman of the youth organization of the Swedish Social Democrats from 1972 to 1978, and then worked as a journalist. He was the editor-in-chief of Arbetet, a Malmö-based newspaper. In the early 1990s, he was the mayor of Malmö, and then president of the Swedish Film Institute before receiving his first government appointment in 1998.
- Occupation
- politician, journalist
- Position held
- Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden, Minister for Social Affairs, chairperson, Minister for Integration
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Born
- August 13, 1945
