Gitte Seeberg

Gitte Seeberg (born June 25, 1960 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish politician and has been Secretary General of WWF Denmark since 2008 .

job

Seeberg graduated from the University of Copenhagen with a law degree in 1986 . She then worked for a law firm for three years before starting her own business as a lawyer and commercial real estate broker in 1989.

politics

Seeberg was a member of the Conservative People's Party in the Folketing from 1994 to 2004 . Between 2001 and 2004 she was deputy party leader and member of Søllerød's municipal council . After the 2004 European elections , she moved to the European Parliament .

Change of party

On May 7, 2007, Gitte Seeberg founded the liberal- centrist party “New Alliance” ( Ny alliance , today Liberal Alliance ) together with MEP Anders Samuelsen and the Folketing MP Naser Khader (both formerly Det Radliche Venstre ). The reason she gave was that she could no longer approve of the cooperation between the Conservative Party and the right-wing populist Danish People's Party . After the Folketing election in 2007 , she returned to the Folketing for the New Alliance.

Gitte Seeberg left the alliance on January 29, 2008 because, in her opinion, the start-up had developed in the wrong political direction. She remained a non-attached MP until she gave up her mandate on July 8, 2008 to become Secretary General of WWF Denmark.

See also: List of members of the 6th European Parliament

Web links

• Gitte Seeberg on the website of WWF Denmark
• Entry on Gitte Seeberg in the Members' database of the European Parliament