Carina Christensen

Carina Christensen ( born November 8, 1972 in Fredericia ) is a Danish entrepreneur and politician of the Conservative People's Party. From 2006 to 2011 she was Minister in the Cabinets of Anders Fogh Rasmussen II, III and Løkke Rasmussen, initially for family and consumer protection, as Minister of Transport from 2007 and from 2008 to 2010 as Minister of Culture.

Life

Carina Christensen was born in 1972 as part of the furniture manufacturers Jelling Egon Christensen and his wife Jette Christensen. In 1991 she made ​​at the high school in Middelfart, High School. In 1998, she completed her business and language studies at the University of Southern, Odense.

Besides her studies, she worked from 1997 as assistant to the Conservative MEPs in the European Parliament Poul Schlüter, Christian Rovsing and Frode Kristoffersen. After that she worked in the Brussels office of the Office of Funen. Since 2001, she transferred to the furniture manufacturer Rugballe Møbelfabrik A / S in Middelfart.

In November of the same year she was first elected to the Folketing, the same also in the senior administrator of the Office of Funen. In 2005 she was elected to the Regional Council of the Region of Southern Denmark was established in 2007. This mandate resigned from her when she was appointed as the successor of Lars Barfoed for Family and Consumer Protection Minister on 15 December 2006. This office did not even held a year when she succeeded her party colleague Flemming Hansen as transport minister in a cabinet reshuffle. As such, they signed the treaty on the establishment of a bridge across the Fehmarn Belt with her ​​German counterpart Wolfgang Tiefensee. When, after the resignation of the party leader and Minister for Economic Affairs Bendt Bendtsen all conservative ministers changed their chairs in September 2008, was Minister of Culture Carina Christensen in succession to Brian Mikkelsen.

Christensen 2010/11 was temporarily Political spokeswoman for the Conservatives, they missed their re-election to parliament.

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