Anitra Linnéa Steen (née Bergström; on 13 May 1949) is a Swedish politician, civil servant and the wife of former Prime Minister Göran Persson.
Steen held various governmental roles since 1989: state secretary for Persson-led Ministry of Education and then for the Ministry of Finance, as well as director-general of the Council for Higher Education and the Tax Agency.
[1] Between 1999 and May 2009, when she retired, she was the manager of Systembolaget, the Swedish state alcoholic beverage retailing monopoly.
[2] In that role she was forced to cope with a full blown corruption scandal, involving bribery of shop managers and senior staff by some major suppliers, including Vin & Sprit, formerly the producing and importing division of the Swedish state monopoly.
[1] Since 6 December 2003, she has been married to Göran Persson, former Prime Minister of Sweden.