Kirsten Brosbøl
Kirsten Brosbøl is a Danish politician. She has represented the Social Democrats in the Danish parliament since 2005, and served as Minister for the Environment from 2014 to 2015. In the Danish general election of 2015, she was re-elected to the Folketing as the second representative from the Østjyllands Storkreds district.Personal life
Kirsten Brosbøl was born in Odder, Denmark. Her father is bricklayer and shoemaker Lars Peter Brosbøl and her mother is nurse Bente Skødt Jensen. She studied mathematics at Odder Gymnasium. She has a cand.scient.soc. degree in sociology with a focus on international development from Roskilde University, and an MA in peace and conflict studies from the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom.Political career
From 2001 to 2004, Brosbøl worked as a student assistant for the Social Democrats in the Folketing, and from 2004 to 2005 she worked as a political consultant for the Danish Social Democrats in the European Parliament. She first ran for the office of member of parliament in 2004 in the Skanderborg district. She was elected with 5,479 votes in the Danish general election of 2005.
As of 2016, she is a member of the following the Folketing committees: The Climate, Energy and Building Committee; The Environment and Food Committee; The Foreign Affairs Committee; and The Foreign Policy Committee.
Brosbøl is the founder and chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Sustainable Development Goals.
