[1] On 25 August 2017, Kinberg Batra announced her resignation as party leader; she was succeeded by Ulf Kristersson on 1 October 2017.

[3] In 1974, Kinberg and her family moved to Rotterdam, Netherlands, as her father worked for Merrill Lynch's Amsterdam office.

[4] They moved back to Sweden in 1980, settling in Djursholm where Kinberg Batra spent the rest of her upbringing.

[7] During the internal fights within the youth league in the beginning of the 1990s, she belonged to the liberal phalanx and supported Ulf Kristersson as chairman.

From 1995 to 1996, she was political secretary at the office of the Moderate Party in the European Parliament, and from 1998 to 2000, she served as project leader.

She has authored the book Indien – från stackare till stormakt ("India – From Wretch to Great Power", Timbro, 2005).

[16] She faced criticism from voters and from within the Moderate Party after the December agreement, which made it possible for Prime Minister Stefan Löfven's centre-left minority government coalition to continue in office.

[25][26] Kinberg Batra also received criticism for increasing the budget threefold for the Tessin Palace, the Governors Official Residence.

During 2023 she defended these claims stating that the kings visit during his golden jubilee required more money to be spent at the Palace.

In August 2024 the National Audit Office in response to this launched an investigation into the incident to determine whether or not the Governor is empowered to fire high ranking county officials such as the chief director or if this power is held by the Government alone, and to decide if the compensation was justified.

[34][35] The next day, on 27 September 2024, Minister for Public Administration Erik Slottner announced that Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and the Government had lost confidence in Batra as Governor of Stockholm County, and that the Government would force her to tender her resignation.

[38] Simultaneously it was announced Batra would be moved to the Government Offices and work there until 2029, when her term as Governor was supposed to end.