Leni Björklund

Leni Christina Elisabeth Björklund (born 5 July 1944) is a Swedish Social Democratic politician.

She went on to work as Managing Director for the Planning and Rationalisation Institute for the Health and Social Services.

When Prime Minister Göran Persson appointed her, on 21 October 2002, she was the secretary-general of the Church of Sweden, a position she had held since 1999.

Leni Björklund holds an honorary doctorate degree from Karolinska Institutet, a Stockholm medical university.

In November 2005, she was reported for initiating military co-operation with the Islamist dictatorship of Saudi Arabia.