Suka K. Frederiksen

Suka K. Frederiksen
Foreign Minister of Greenland
Assumed office
April 25, 2017
Preceded by Vittus Qujaukitsoq
Minister of Independence, Foreign Affairs, and Agriculture
Assumed office
November 2016
Member of the Inatsisartut
Assumed office
2014
Personal details
Born (1965-07-18) July 18, 1965
Narsaq, Greenland
Political party Siumut

Suka K. Frederiksen (born July 18, 1965) is the current Foreign Minister of Greenland. Frederiksen has been a member of the Inatsisartut since 2014 and holds the position of Minister of Independence, Foreign Affairs, and Agriculture since 2016.

Early life and education

Suka K. Frederiksen was born on July 18, 1965 in Narsaq, Greenland. From 2007 to 2010, she completed a management diploma and a bachelor of commerce.[1]

Career

In 1986, Frederiksen started her career as an office clerk and worked for HK Commercial. She spent the next five years at a sheep farm before working briefly at a grocery store in Greenland. In 1994, Frederiksen started a ten-year position as a principal for Narsaq before moving on and held managerial positions in Kujalleq Municipality.[1]

Frederiksen started her career in politics as a city councilor for Narsaq Municipality in 2005. After her position ended in 2009, her next political position came in 2014 when she was elected to the Inatsisartut.[1] During her time at the Inatsisartut, she became the first Minister of Independence for Greenland in 2016. As Minister of Independence, Frederiksen led a committee that began drafting a constitution for Greenland on the basis of a potential independence.[2]

In 2017, Frederiksen was named Foreign Minister of Greenland after Vittus Qujaukitsoq resigned and became in charge of international relations between Greenland and Denmark.[2] During her term as Foreign Minister, Frederiksen declared that a prior complaint by Qujaukitsoq to the United Nations was retracted and that the complaint was made by him alone.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Suka Frederiksen". Naalakkersuisut. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
  2. 1 2 Breum, Martin (25 April 2017). "The resignation of Greenland's foreign minister may signal trouble for the premier at home". Arctic Now. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
  3. ↑ McGwin, Kevin (19 May 2017). "Nuuk withdraws a human-rights complaint to the UN". Arctic Now. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
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