Britta Thomsen

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Britta Thomsen (b. 23 January 1954 in Aalborg) is a Danish politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Social Democrats, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.

She is also a member of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, a substitute for the Committee on Development, and vice-chair of the delegation for relations with South Africa.

[edit] Career

Scholarship, Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala (1979)
Studies in Portuguese language and culture, University of Lisbon (1979-1980)
studies in Portuguese and Spanish, Aarhus University (1980-1983)
MA (History), Aarhus University
Teacher and organiser of adult education (1983-1989)
Consultant (various contracts)
Consultant, HK (Union of Commercial and Clerical Employees in Denmark), responsible for international projects and surveys in the tourism and service industries (1994-2000)
Director and owner of Facilitate (consultancy), working with labour market issues at European level (2001-2004)
With the Danish Social Democrats
member of the party programme committee (2000)
Publications: articles about Portugal in various Danish magazines