Presentation
Opening Speech: Uniting the World? Values in Sport in the 21st Century - Play the Game 2002
Name: Mr Brian Arthur Mikkelsen
Date of Birth: 31 January 1966, Copenhagen
Academic qualifications: MA (Political Science)
Marital Status: Married to Ms Eliane Wexe Mikkelsen, LLB. Four children. Two from wife's previous marriage.
Political career:
1985-1986
Business Manager Conservative Secondary School Students
1986-1987
National Chairman Conservative Secondary School Students
1986-1987
Chairman Scandinavian Conservative Secondary School Students
1987-1989
Member National Executive Committee Conservative Youth
1989-1990
National Chairman
1989-1990
Member of Executive Committee of Christian Democratic Youth Organisation
1989-1991
Member National Executive Conservative Peoples Party
1990-
Conservative Peoples Party candidate for the Holbk constituency
1994-
Member of Parliament (MF)
1998-
Member National Executive Committee Conservative Peoples Party
1999-
Deputy Chairman, Conservative Peoples Party Parliamentary Group
2001-2008
Minister for Culture
2008-2010
Minister of Justice
2010-
Minister for Economic and Business Affairs
Former Conservative Party spokesman for Research, Culture and Education.
Former Parliamentary Committee Chairman: Parliamentary 71 Committee on the Mentally Ill
Former Parliamentary Committee posts: Cultural Committee, Revenue Committee,
Transport Committee, Education Committee, Research Committee and the Islands Committee.
Professional career
1990-1992
Gfk/Observa, Analyst
1992-1996
ASE (Unemployment Fund for the Self-employed)
Councils, executives etc:
1983-1984
Executive member Ledje-Smrum FC
1987-1989
Executive member FOF
1989-1991
Member National Council DUF (Danish Youth Council)
1994-2001
Member Holbæk College of Education Council
1996-2001
Member Railway Council
1997-2001
Executive member Technology Council
1998-2001
Member of Council for the Danish Centre for Human Rights
1998-2001
Member of Danish Cultural Institute Council
1998-2001
Member Executive Committee FOF
2000-2001
Member Danish Road Safety Council
2000-
Member VL Group 7
2000-2001
Member ARTE Council
Academic history:
1982-1983
Orcas High School
1983-1986
Ballerup Gymnasium (graduated in 1986)
1986-1989
Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen
1991-1994
Institute of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (MA, Political Science, 1994)
Co-author of*
Nicaragua, 1986
Namibia på vej mod demokrati, 1988 (Namibia on the Road to Democracy)
Det borgerlige gennembrud, 1991 (The Conservative Breakthrough)
Jorden og de selvstændige, 1994 (Land and Small Businesses)
* Published in Danish only. |
