Ulrica Messing (born 31 January 1968 in Hällefors[1]) is a Swedish politician and civil servant who has served as Governor of Blekinge County since 2021.
She was chairman of the parliamentary Committee for Defence from 2006 to 2007, when she resigned from Parliament and ended her political career.
During her tenure, the volume of Sweden's arms exports grew to become the ninth largest in the world (2005).
One arms deal during this time that attracted particular criticism was the Swedish company SAAB's export of airplanes to Pakistan, under military rule at the time, in a deal worth 8.3 billion SEK (about 1.2 billion USD).
[4] In 2008 Messing opened a design store called Porthouse Interior in Gothenburg.