Ellen Trane Nørby

Ellen Trane Nørby (born 1 February 1980) is a Danish politician (Venstre "liberal centre" party). Since 28 November 2016 she has been her country's Minister of Health.

Ellen Trane Nørby was born in Herning, a midsized manufacturing and administrative town in the centre of Jutland. She grew up in Nørre Nissum, a large village on the edge of Lemvig along country's west coast. Jørgen Andreas Nørby, her father, is a biologist and secondary school teacher who served as municipal mayor of Lemvig between 1998 and 2006. Her mother is an architect. Nørby attended school in Nørre Nissum between 1985 and 1995, then moving on to the Gymnasium (Upper School) at Lemwig. She enrolled at Copenhagen University where from 1998 she studied Art History, with a side module between 1999 and 2001 on political sciences. She concluded her university level studies in 2005 with a "Master of Arts" degree.

While still a student she had already worked at the Christiansborg Palace, home to Denmark's government and national parliament.

She joined the Venstre party and its youth organisation in 1995. In 1999 she became vice-president of the European Liberal Youth organisation comprising, for the most part, the youth wings of members of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party. Between 2002 and 2004 she was the . In 2004 she stood for election to the European parliament. Her 24,380 votes were not sufficient to win her a seat in the assembly, however.

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