Anne Grete Holmsgaard

Anne Grete Holmsgaard
Personal details
Born (1948-08-11) 11 August 1948 (age 76)
Odense, Denmark
Political partySocialist People’s Party
Other political
affiliations		Left-Wing Socialist Party

Anne Grete Holmsgaard (born 11 August 1948) is a Danish energy expert and politician who served in the Parliament between 1979 and 2011 with an interruption from 1987 to 2001. She was first a member of the Left-Wing Socialist Party and then of the Socialist People’s Party.

Biography

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Holmsgaard (second from right) in the 2009 meeting New Energy Scenarios for the Baltic Sea Region

Holmsgaard was born in Odense on 11 August 1948.[1] She graduated from a high school in 1967 and attended Roskilde University, but did not completed her graduate studies.[1] She worked at the Danish State Railways between 1987 and 1995.[1] Next she served as the director of the Technical University of Denmark until 2002.[1]

She was first elected to the Parliament for the Left-Wing Socialist Party in October 1979 representing Funen County.[1] From September 1986 she began to serve as a deputy for the Socialist People’s Party.[1] Her last parliamentary membership for the party was between 13 November 2007 and 15 September 2011.[1] On 11 July 1988 Holmsgaard was elected in the national congress as a member of the executive committee of the party.[2] She held other posts in the party, including foreign affairs spokesman.[3] As of 2020 she was the chair of the Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program, a Danish sustainable energy fund.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Anne Grete Holmsgaard". Danish Parliament. 15 September 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  2. ^ "Former Socialist Left Member High Up in Socialist People's Party" (PDF). JPRS Report. 12 July 1988. p. 5. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Vice President Lu Receives Margrete Auken, Fourth Deputy Speaker of the Danish Parliament". Office of the President (Taiwan). Taipei. CNA. 17 January 2003. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  4. ^ "Innovation boom: Danish green energy patents and projects skyrocket in numbers". State of Green. 27 March 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
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