Rolf K. Nilsson

Rolf K. Nilsson (born 1956) is a Swedish Moderate Party politician and a member of the Riksdag since 2006.

[1] Born in Landskrona, he is a journalist by occupation and now resides in Stenkyrka, Gotland, although he works full-time with politics in Stockholm[2] He joined the Moderate School Youth (Moderat skolungdom, MSU) in 1970 and was the chairman of the Helsingborg chapter 1975-1976.

The years 1978-1979 and 1982-1983 he was chairman of the Moderate Youth League (Moderata Ungdomsförbundet, MUF) in Helsingborg.

[2] He studied to become a journalist, moved to Gothenburg in 1987, and became a secretary in the editorial office of the newspaper Morgonposten, eventually becoming editor-in-chief in 1990.

That kept him busy until he in 1995 got the job as editorialist and editor of culture of the newspaper Västernorrlands Allehanda in Härnösand.