Vivian Motzfeldt
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Vivian Motzfeldt | |
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Speaker of the Inatsisartut | |
Assumed office 3 October 2018 | |
Prime Minister | Kim Kielsen |
Preceded by | Hans Enoksen |
Deputy Chairman of Siumut | |
Assumed office 2020 | |
Prime Minister | Kim Kielsen |
Leader | Erik Jensen |
Naalakkersuisoq for Foreign Affairs | |
In office 2018–2020 | |
Prime Minister | Kim Kielsen |
Succeeded by | Kim Kielsen |
Minister of Education, Culture and Church | |
In office 2018–2020 | |
Prime Minister | Kim Kielsen |
Succeeded by | Ane Lone Bagger |
Personal details | |
Born | 10 June 1972 Upernaviarsuk, Kujalleq, Greenland |
Citizenship | Denmark |
Nationality | Greenlandic |
Political party | Siumut |
Children | 2 |
Residence | Nuuk, Sermersooq, Greenland |
Alma mater | University of Greenland |
Vivian Motzfeldt is a Greenlandic politician serving as the Speaker of the Inatsisartut, the Parliament of Greenland,[1] and the deputy chairwoman of Siumut.[2] In the Kielsen V Cabinet, Motzfeldt served as the Minister of Education, Culture, Church and Foreign Affairs.[3][4]
Early life and education[]
Vivian Motzfedlt was born on 10 June 1972. At seven years old, she moved to a school home in Qaqortoq. Each Christmas she and her siblings went back to their hometown of Upernaviarsuk, an experimental site for agriculture in southern Greenland. She spent Christmas at her childhood home until she was 17, when she went to the United States on an exchange study stay. She returned to Greenland to study to be a teacher in Nuuk. From 1998 to 2000, Motzfedlt attended the University of Greenland where she studied cultural and social history of Greenland. She then had a teaching career first in Nuuk until 2007, and then Qaqortoq from 2010 to 2014.
References[]
- ^ "President of Inatsisartut". Inatsisartut.
- ^ Breum, Martin. "New political leader in Greenland: "We are on the path towards independence"". High North News.
- ^ "Michel Barnier: Meets Vivian Motzfeldt, Minister of Education, Culture, Church and Foreign Affairs of Greenland, Brussel". Europa Nu.
- ^ Jacobsen, Marc. "Greenland's Foreign Minister: Arctic attention means a lot". High North News.
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