Ute Steyer

Ute Steyer (born 1967) is a rabbi in Sweden, the first woman to serve as a rabbi in the country. The Great Synagogue of Stockholm, which Steyer leads as Sweden's first female rabbi. She is the rabbi of the Jewish Community of Stockholm and of the Great Synagogue of Stockholm, a Conservative congregation, which serves as the city's main synagogue and center of Jewish life. She also works at Paideia – The Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden as the resident lecturer of talmud.

After working for Ericsson and the Chamber of Commerce in Stockholm in the 1990s and studying at Lund University, during which time she became fluent in Swedish, she chose to become a rabbi. She was ordained in 2009, through the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, and graduated with a master's degree in Jewish philosophy.