Anne Grete Holmsgaard
Anne Grete Holmsgaard | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 August 1948 Odense, Denmark |
| Political party | Socialist People’s Party |
| Other political affiliations | Left-Wing Socialist Party |
Anne Grete Holmsgaard (born 11 August 1948) is a Danish energy expert and politician who served in the Parliament between 1979 and 2011 with an interruption from 1987 to 2001. She was first a member of the Left-Wing Socialist Party and then of the Socialist People’s Party.
Biography
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Holmsgaard was born in Odense on 11 August 1948.[1] She graduated from a high school in 1967 and attended Roskilde University, but did not completed her graduate studies.[1] She worked at the Danish State Railways between 1987 and 1995.[1] Next she served as the director of the Technical University of Denmark until 2002.[1]
She was first elected to the Parliament for the Left-Wing Socialist Party in October 1979 representing Funen County.[1] From September 1986 she began to serve as a deputy for the Socialist People’s Party.[1] Her last parliamentary membership for the party was between 13 November 2007 and 15 September 2011.[1] On 11 July 1988 Holmsgaard was elected in the national congress as a member of the executive committee of the party.[2] She held other posts in the party, including foreign affairs spokesman.[3] As of 2020 she was the chair of the Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program, a Danish sustainable energy fund.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g "Anne Grete Holmsgaard". Danish Parliament. 15 September 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
- ^ "Former Socialist Left Member High Up in Socialist People's Party" (PDF). JPRS Report. 12 July 1988. p. 5. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
- ^ "Vice President Lu Receives Margrete Auken, Fourth Deputy Speaker of the Danish Parliament". Office of the President (Taiwan). Taipei. CNA. 17 January 2003. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
- ^ "Innovation boom: Danish green energy patents and projects skyrocket in numbers". State of Green. 27 March 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
External links
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- 1948 births
- Living people
- People from Odense
- Members of the Folketing 1977–1979
- Members of the Folketing 1979–1981
- Socialist People's Party (Denmark) politicians
- Women members of the Folketing
- Members of the Folketing 1981–1984
- Members of the Folketing 1984–1987
- Members of the Folketing 2001–2005
- Members of the Folketing 2005–2007
- Members of the Folketing 2007–2011
- 20th-century Danish women politicians
- 21st-century Danish women politicians
- People associated with renewable energy