Agathe Fontain

Agathe Fontain (2010)

Agathe Fontain (born June 9, 1951 in Sisimiut ) is a Greenlandic politician ( Inuit Ataqatigiit ).

Life

Agathe Fontain attended schools in Sisimiut. After working as a nanny, she was at the sports college in Gerlev from 1972 to 1973 . She then trained as a nursing assistant in Slagelse until 1976 . She was also a teacher at the Minngortuunguup Atuarfia school in Sisimiut. From 1981 to 1982 she was a teacher at Grønlænderhuset in Holstebro . From 1984 to 1986 she took her higher preparatory examination (comparable to upper secondary level ) in Copenhagen , where she then learned sign language at the Copenhagen Business School until 1988 . From 1989 to 1998 she was the state consultant for the deaf in Greenland and then until 2009 the headmaster of the Greenland School for the Deaf in Sisimiut.

Agathe Fontain was elected to the council of the municipality of Sisimiut in 1993 , where she remained until the administrative reform in 2009, when the municipality was merged with the municipality of Maniitsoq to form Qeqqata Kommunia . From 1999 to 2006 she was a member of Greenland's Equal Opportunities Council, of which she has been Chair since 2002. She was a member of the Inatsisartut for many years and from 2006 to 2007 she was the first Minister for Health and Environment in Naalakkersuisut . From 2009 to 2013 she was again Minister of Health under Kuupik Kleist and from 2016 to 2018 she was Minister for Health and Nordic Cooperation. In the 2018 parliamentary election, she could no longer get a seat.

She is married and has three sons.

Web links

Commons : Agathe Fontain  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile at altinget.dk
2. ↑ CV ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the side of the Naalakkersuisut