Inger Støjberg

Inger Støjberg (born 16 March 1973) is a Danish Minister for Immigration, Integration and Housing since June 2015. She has been member of parliament since the 2001 elections for the party Venstre. She has been Minister of Employment.

Inger Støjberg grew up as the daughter of a housewife and a farmer on the North Jutlandic island of Mors. In 1993, she graduated from Morsø Gymnasium in Nykøbing Mors. In 1995, she finished the one-year higher commerce exam in Viborg. In 1996, on the same school of commerce, she attended a one-year economical communication study that had been instated in the meantime.

In 1999 she graduated from InformationsAkademiet. The same year, she began working as a reporter at the Viborg newspaper, and in the following year, she became an independent communication agent and continued to work for the paper until 2001. In 2004, Støjberg published a biography of the North Jutlandic pop duo Sussi og Leo. In the year 2008, the politician married the long-time editor of Berlingske Jesper Beinov, who, since 2016, is employed as a consultant of the Danish ministry of finances. Having no children, the couple divorced in 2012.

In the year 2013, Støjberg achieved the title of Master of Business Administration from the University of Aalborg. She lives in Hadsund.

Støjberg's first elected office was as member of the city council of Viborg Municipality, a position she occupied 1994—2002. She served as chairman of Liberalt Oplysnings Forbund (LOF) from 1996 to 1999.

In 1999, she first ran for parliament. By the electoral victory of her party in 2001, then headed by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, she succeeded in getting into parliament.

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