Ardalan Shekarabi (Persian: اردلان شکرآبی; born 28 November 1978) is a Swedish social democratic politician.

He was born in Manchester in the UK and grew up in Shahriyar outside Tehran in Iran.

[4] Together they got an apartment in Gävle and Shekarabi started in a preparatory class at primary school.

[5] In 2007, Ardalan graduated from Uppsala University with Master of Laws degree.

[6] In December 2004 Dagens Nyheter revealed that Shekarabi had siphoned funds[7] from his political party's youth fund SSU into an account supposed to be used for integration projects.