Connie Hedegaard
| Connie Hedegaard | |
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| European Commissioner for Climate Action | |
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In office 9 February 2010 – 31 October 2014 |
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| President | José Manuel Barroso |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Miguel Arias Cañete (Climate Action and Energy) |
| Minister for Climate and Energy | |
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In office 23 November 2007 – 24 November 2009 |
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| Prime Minister |
Anders Fogh Rasmussen Lars Løkke Rasmussen |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Lykke Friis |
| Minister for Nordic Cooperation | |
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In office 18 February 2005 – 23 November 2007 |
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| Prime Minister | Anders Fogh Rasmussen |
| Preceded by | Flemming Hansen |
| Succeeded by | Bertel Haarder |
| Minister for the Environment | |
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In office 2 August 2004 – 23 November 2007 |
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| Prime Minister | Anders Fogh Rasmussen |
| Preceded by | Hans Christian Schmidt |
| Succeeded by | Troels Lund Poulsen |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
15 October 1960 Holbæk, Denmark |
| Political party | Conservative People's Party |
| Alma mater | University of Copenhagen |
Connie Hedegaard Koksbang (born 15 September 1960) is a Danish politician and public intellectual who was European Commissioner for Climate Action in the (second Barroso) European Commission from 10 February 2010 through 31 October 2014.
On behalf of Denmark, she hosted the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009. She was Danish Minister for Climate and Energy from 23 November 2007 as a member of the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen III and that of Lars Løkke Rasmussen and had been the Danish Minister for the Environment from 2 August 2004 to 23 November 2007, as a member of the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen I and II.
In Denmark, she was a member of the Conservative People's Party (DKF), and was a member of parliament (Folketing) from 10 January 1984 to 3 October 1990. She was also elected a member of the Folketing in the 2005 Danish parliamentary election. Prior to becoming a minister, she worked as a journalist at DR, the Danish national broadcaster.
Connie Hedegaard holds an MA in Literature and History. She has been a member of the Conservative Party and active in government on and off since 1984, when she was elected as the hitherto youngest member of the Folketing, the Danish national parliament, where she sat for six years. In 1990, she left politics to pursue a career in journalism. Over the next 14 years, she worked as a journalist at the newspaper Berlingske Tidende, took the post of Director of DR Radio News, and was the anchor for Deadline, a Danish TV news program.
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