Martin Lidegaard

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Martin Lidegaard (2015)

Martin Lidegaard (born December 12, 1966 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish politician from Det Radikale Venstre (RV) and was his country's foreign minister from 2014 to 2015 .

Life

Lidegaard is one of the sons of the writer couple Mats and Else Lidegaard . His older brother Bo Lidegaard is a former diplomat who was permanent ambassador to the Prime Minister responsible for climate change and has been editor-in-chief of the daily Politiken since 2011 .

After attending Humlebæk Kommuneskole and Helsingør Amtsgymnasium, he began studying communication sciences at Roskilde University in 1985, and in 1990 he became editor of the university newspaper RUC NYT there . After completing his studies, he became press spokesman for municipal insurance (Kommunernes Forsikring) in 1993 , before becoming press spokesman and deputy general secretary of Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke (MS), the Danish Association for International Cooperation, in 1995. In addition, he became chairman of a network of 92 groups that campaign for sustainable development .

In the Folketing election in 2001 he was elected as a candidate for Det Radikalische Venstre as a member of the Folketing and was a member of this until his defeat in the Folketing election in 2007 . During this time he was energy, transport and food policy spokesman for his parliamentary group and as such developed the party strategy Det Creative Denmark . Between 2005 and 2007, Lidegaard was also the climate, environmental and social policy spokesman for the RV parliamentary group as well as chairman of his party's strategy committee and a member of the parliamentary group's executive committee.

After leaving the Folketing, he became a communications consultant for RelationsPeople in 2008 and co-founded the CONCITO think tank , of which he became CEO on September 1, 2008.

On October 3, 2011, Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt appointed him Minister for Climate, Energy and Building in her first government .

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predecessor Office successor
Holger K. Nielsen Danish Foreign Minister
February 3, 2014 - June 28, 2015
Kristian Jensen