Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs (Denmark)

The Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs, now called the Ministry of Business and Growth,[1] is a ministry that was established by the first Helle Thorning-Schmidt cabinet.

The ministry was created in 2001 as a merger between the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Ministry of Trade and Industry. After the 2011 election the ministry was divided into two; Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Interior and Ministry of Business and Growth. Henrik Sass Larsen is current minister of Business and Growth and Margrethe Vestager is current minister of Economic Affairs and the Interior.

Ministers

FromToMinister of Economic and Business AffairsYear of Birth
27 November 200110 September 2008Bendt Bendtsen (Conservative)b. 1954
10 September 200823 February 2010Lene Espersen (Conservative)b. 1965
23 February 20103 October 2011Brian Mikkelsen (Conservative)b. 1966
3 October 201116 October 2012Ole Sohn (Socialist People's Party)b. 1954
16 October 20129 August 2013Annette Vilhelmsen (Socialist People's Party)b. 1959
9 August 201328 June 2015Henrik Sass Larsen (Social Democrat)b. 1966
28 June 201528 November 2016Troels Lund Poulsen (Liberal)b. 1976
28 November 201621 June 2018Brian Mikkelsen (Conservative)b. 1966
21 June 2018IncumbentRasmus Jarlov (Conservative)b. 1977

Citations

  1. OECD 2012, p. 124.

References

  • OECD (10 August 2012), "Danish governance and policy context for regional strategies", OECD Reviews of Regional Innovation: Central and Southern Denmark 2012 (PDF)|format= requires |url= (help), OECD Reviews of Regional Innovation, OECD Publishing, doi:10.1787/9789264178748-en, ISBN 9789264178748, OCLC 844310709, retrieved 21 November 2014



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