Maha educationist’s daughter named Sweden PMO adviser

AHMEDNAGAR: Nila Vikhe Patil, a person of Indian descent, has been named political adviser in the Swedish Prime Minister’s Office.

Nila, 32, daughter of leading educationist Ashok Vikhe Patil, would be working with Stefan Lofven, the Social Democrat leader who was last month elected as Swedish PM leading a Social Democrat-Green Party coalition. “Nila has been appointed as the Political Adviser to the PMO in charge of Finance and will handle taxes, budgets, financial markets and housing,” her father told PTI.

She has also been elected to the City Council of the Stockholm civic body. Also a Political Adviser in the PMO during the previous govt, Nila has been active member of the Green Party and is a member of the Election Committee of the Stockholm Green Party.

Born in Sweden, Nila spent early years in Ahmednagar, and is the granddaughter of former Union minister Balasaheb Vikhe Patil and niece of Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, the Leader of Oppn in the state Assembly. She holds a Bachelor’s degree and an MBA from Gothenburg School of Business, with Eco and Law, and studied MBA in University de Complutense in Madrid.