Martin Lidegaard

Martin Lidegaard ( born December 12, 1966 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish politician Det Radical Venstre (RV) and since February 3, 2014 Foreign Minister of his country.

Life

Lidegaard is one of the sons of the literary couple Mats and Else Lidegaard. His older brother Bo Lidegaard is a former diplomat who was responsible for climate change as Permanent Ambassador to the Prime Minister and since 2011 editor of the daily newspaper Politiken.

After visiting the Humlebæk Kommuneskole and Helsingør Centre Gymnasium 1985, he began to study communication sciences at the University of Roskilde and was while studying in 1990 the editor of the local college newspaper RUC NYT. After graduating in 1993 he became the spokesman of the municipal insurance ( Forsikring Kommunernes ), before he then 1995 press secretary and deputy secretary general of Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke ( MS), the Danish Association for International Cooperation. In addition, he was chairman of a network of 92 groups campaigning for sustainable development.

In the general election in 2001 he was elected as a candidate of Det Radical Venstre for deputies in the Folketing and this was up to his defeat in the general election in 2007. During this time he was energy, transport and food policy spokesman of his group and developed as such the party strategy Det creative Denmark. Between 2005 and 2007 Lidegaard was additionally climatic, environmental and social policy spokesman of the RV Group and Chairman of the Strategy Committee of his party and member of the Group Executive Board.

After retiring from the Folketing 2008 he was Kommunkationsberater of People Relations and co-founder of the think tank CONCITO whose executive chairman, he was born on 1 September 2008.

On October 3, 2011 him Prime Minister Helle Thorning -Schmidt appointed as Minister for Climate, Energy and Building in her first government.