Ester Madeleine Hovell, née Pousette (born 22 July 1943) is a Swedish journalist.
She is the author of De glömda barnen (1996), Sveriges skolledarförbund 40 år: 1966–2006 (2006), Trygg på jobbet – så förebygger och hanterar du hot, våld och trakasserier mot skolans personal (2009) and Våga fråga, våga lyssna, våga agera!
[1] Madeleine Pousette was born on 22 July 1943 in Engelbrekt parish in Stockholm.
[3] She was employed at Expressen from 1968 to 1970, at Vingresor in Bulgaria and Austria from 1970 to 1971, worked at Håll Sverige Rent from 1972 to 1974, at the Association for non-toxic foods (Föreningen för giftfria livsmedel), and at Miljötidningen from 1975 to 1980.
When Kommunaktuellt merged with Landstingsvärlden to form Dagens Samhälle in 2003, she was the newspaper's first editor-in-chief.