Aaja Chemnitz Larsen

Aaja Chemnitz Larsen
Member of the Danish Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Assumed office
1 October 2015
Member of the Danish Parliament
Assumed office
18 July 2015
Deputy Johan Lund Olsen
Preceded by Sara Olsvig
Member of the Greenlandic Parliament
Assumed office
10 December 2014
Deputy Múte Bourup Egede
Personal details
Born (1977-12-02) 2 December 1977
Nuuk, Greenland
Nationality Greenlandic
Political party Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA)
Alma mater University of Greenland
INSEAD
Profession Master of Science (MSc) in Business Economics and Auditing
Website www.iafolketingimi.dk
www.ia.gl

Aaja Chemnitz Larsen (born 2 December 1977 in Nuuk) is a Greenlandic politician and a Member of Parliament at the Folketing (Danish Parliament) for the Inuit Ataqatigiit, representing one of the two seats for Greenland. She is the first elected politician from Greenland in the Folketinget, to become a Member of International Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.[1]

Education and civil career

Aaja Chemnitz Larsen studied Master of Science (MSc) in Business Economics and Auditing at the University of Greenland and has a Executive management degree from INSEAD. Aaja has since the election to Inatsisartut (Greenlandic parliament) in November 2014 been a member of Inatsisartut which she took a leave from due to the work at the Folketing. In the period from 2012-2015 she was Greenland's children spokesman for MIO – National Advocacy for Childrens Rights in Greenland. In the period 2009-2012 has she was the director of the Welfare Department in Municipality of Sermersooq and been head of the social department in the years 2007-2009. Right Until 2009 she was employed as an Associate Expert of the United Nations in New York in the Division of Social and Economic Affairs, and here working with indigenous peoples' rights.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.thedanishparliament.dk/Members/aaja-chemnitz-larsen.aspx

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