Anders Samuelsen

Anders Samuelsen
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Incumbent
Assumed office 28 November 2016
Prime Minister	Lars Løkke Rasmussen
Preceded by	Kristian Jensen
Personal details
Born	(1967-08-01) 1 August 1967 Horsens, Denmark
Political party	Liberal Alliance
Alma mater	Aarhus University

Anders Samuelsen (born 1 August 1967 in Horsens) is a Danish politician, member of the Folketing with the Liberal Alliance and former Member of the European Parliament sitting on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets. He is a former member of Det Radikale Venstre, and was a Member of the Bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. He left this party on 7 May 2007,^[1] and was elected to the Danish parliament for Liberal Alliance in the 2007 election.

As member of the European Parliament, he was a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs, a member of the Delegation for relations with Iran and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China.

Education

• 1993: Master's degree in political science from Aarhus University
• Employed by Ministry of Finance

Career

• 1994-1998: Consultant and section manager at the College for the Deaf, Castberggård
• 1998-2004: Loose association with same college
• 1998-2004: Member of the Folketing
• Since 2003: President of Civil Protection Association
• 2007, 7 May: One of the three founding members of the Liberal Alliance

Honours

• 2017 : grand cross of the Order of the Crown

See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Denmark)

See also

• List of foreign ministers in 2017
• List of current foreign ministers

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Anders Samuelsen.

• Official website
• Personal profile of Anders Samuelsen in the European Parliament's database of members
• Declaration (PDF) of financial interests (in Danish)